\usepackage{amsmath} ... \begin{equation} a=b \label{eq1} \end{equation} ... Remember that \begin{equation} a=b \tag{\ref{eq1}} \end{equation}
Here, the second instance of a=b will be
typeset with a copy, made by the \
tag
command, of the label of the
first instance.
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