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Combinatorics Difficulty 5.0 AIME, harder Prove it United Kingdom

Naomi has a broken calculator. All it can do is either add one to the previous answer, or square the previous answer. (It performs the operations correctly.) Naomi starts with 2 on the screen. In how many ways can she obtain an answer of 1000?

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