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<title>multicolumn | column-width</title>
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	one two three four
	five six seven eight 
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	nineten eleven twelve
	thirtn 
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	fourtnfiftn sixtn
	seventn eightn
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	ninetn twenty
	hundred thousand 
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	million billion
	trillion 
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