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Every morning, Mike the security guard at CP High School opens all 1000 doors in the building, numbered 1 to 1000. The next guard closes all even-numbered doors. Each subsequent guard toggles (opens if closed, closes if open) every nth door, where n is the guard's number, until the 1000th guard toggles only door 1000. How many doors are left open in the end?

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