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<div class="column1"> <p>(Applicable as of January 2021)</p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="column1"> <h3>§ 1 Product Description</h3> <p> (1) zbMATH Open is the world’s largest information system with publications from pure and applied mathematics. 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