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A search for lepton-flavor and lepton-number violation in the decay of the tau lepton into one charged lepton and two charged hadrons is performed using 221.4 fb−1 of data collected at an e+e− center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV with the BABAR detector at the SLAC PEP-II storage ring. In all …