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create an example of a functional programming protocol in scala.
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def timestwo(n: int): int = 
    n * n 

def timesthree(n:int): int = 
    n * n * n 

val numlist = list (1,2,3,4,5)
val result = numlist.map(timestwo).map(timesthree)

// result: list[int] = list(3, 24, 243, 1024, 3125)
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