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I tried squaring 32 and 42 and added the results together and came up with 2788. 52 squared is 2704.
Oh, now I see- they meant 3 squared (which is a very small number 2) plus 4 squared equals 5 squared.
And the three three-digit numbers check out, also.
RIP and three cheers for the brilliant Babylonian mathematicians and Pythagoras for figuring out these kinds of things in an age of no calculators or computers. 
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