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Why is the full Merkle path needed to verify a transaction?

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If I have transaction A and wish to verify that it is in the block, and I also have the hash of transaction B and the hash of the hashes of A and B, then can't I just hash A and then see if what I get by hashing A's hash and B's hash is equal to what is in the Merkle tree? Why do I have go all the way to the root?


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