Brain Game: Pieces of Eight

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I had a recent dream where the number "8" kept popping up. It didn't help me win the lottery, so I decided to employ it in today's mentalfloss.com Brain Game Think Thursday challenge instead. Enjoy!

Using one or more instances of "8's" and plus signs
(but no other numbers or symbols),
create an equation that exactly equals 1,000.

Here is the ANSWER.

March 8, 2012 - 2:30am
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