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I am trying to give equal credits to two authors, but I am failing to put this in latex. I did it a bit unconventionally and my latex code is as follows:

\documentclass[sigconf]{acmart}
\fancyhead{}
\pagenumbering{gobble}
\settopmatter{printfolios=false}
\settopmatter{printacmref=false} % Removes citation information below abstract
\renewcommand\footnotetextcopyrightpermission[1]{}
\usepackage{booktabs} % For formal tables
\author{A*, B*, and C}
\thanks{*these authors contributed equally}
\affiliation{%
  \institution{D}
  \city{E} 
  \state{F} 
%  \postcode{0}
}
\email{{a,b,c}@gmail.com}
\begin{document}
\title{TITLE}
\maketitle
\end{document}

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It does not look original to me. So, if there is any other solution, please kindly share.

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acmart (now) supports this directly. From the documentation:

Sometimes one may need to have the same footnote connected to several authors. The command \authornotemark[⟨number⟩] adds just the footnote mark, for example,

\author{A. U. Thor}
\authornote{Both authors contributed equally to the paper}
...
\author{A. N. Other}
\authornotemark[1]

With other document classes, the generic footnotemark approach (linked above) might be the right thing. For instance, sometimes you might have to use \thanks on one author and \footnotemark on the other, but it depends on how the style file does author names.

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