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That's great it worked

But when i reference the equation, each time it creates a new footnote symbol in the referenced equation number. The pdf looks like this:

As you can see in equation (2*)

x=y (2^)

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^thefootnote



is there a way to reference an equation with a footnote without there ...

Hi

I was trying to get a footnote next to an equation number and i found the following code will work.

\begin{equation}\refstepcounter{equation}
x=y \tag{\theequation\footnotemark}
\end{equation} \footnotetext{thefootnote}

But the problem I've been having is when i try to reference the equation ...