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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 8-2-7 on page 473.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%% Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexamargin}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{amsmath}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
\begin{split}
(a + b)^4
&= (a + b)^2 (a + b)^2 \\
&= (a^2 + 2ab + b^2)
(a^2 + 2ab + b^2) \\
&= a^4 + 4a^3b + 6a^2b^2 + 4ab^3 + b^4
\end{split}
\end{equation}
\end{document}