[Jprogramming] Why does my function composition fail?

[Don Nguyen]

I have the following function
sqsum =: *: @: +/
When I use it as follows
sqsum 1 2 3
It produces 676 whereas the correct output should be
*: (+/ 1 2 3)
=36
What have I done wrong?
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