They are both the same.
or, as some of my students would be inclined to put it: Both of the two of them are exactly the same.
(Now that I think of it, this illustrates why these redundancies are worth pointing out. There's nothing particularly egregious in the first one. It can, as some have said about other redundancies, be preferable in some contexts to the more succinct version, but it may show the writer hasn't stopped to consider the words, which can lead to writing like the second example.)
Last edited by Max Goodman; 02-29-2016 at 07:25 AM.
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