the same figure vs the same shape

Both 'the same figure' and 'the same shape' are correct phrases, but they are used in different contexts. 'The same figure' is commonly used when referring to a specific numerical value or a person of importance, while 'the same shape' is used when talking about the form or outline of an object.

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the same figure

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to a specific numerical value or a person of importance that remains unchanged.

Examples:

If you look at the data, you will notice that the same figure appears in both reports.
The same figure has been leading the company for over a decade.

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So, the same figure will flow back to you.
The soil/solution ratio may be expressed in units of w/w or w/vol with the same figure.
For the purpose of the test, it is considered that the weight of 1 cm3 of aqueous solution is 1g. The soil/solution ratio may be expressed in units of w/w or w/vol with the same figure.
The exporting producer claimed that the cost for depreciation, building and insurance used in the calculation of the normal value of one type was not the same as the one used for the other types and the same figure should apply to all types.
Whereas the same figure was adopted in Directive 94/19/EC;
That, Commissioner, should not be a problem either, since we have the same figure of 25 % in the port state control directive.
Mr. Lautmann must have had the same figure as I.
Both calculation procedures should inevitably lead us to the same figure, which will be the outcome of the tax in that financial year.
In the same figure, like the King that's dead.
It is very interesting to note that 82% of the large US companies set up after 1980 were created from nothing while in the EU the same figure is only 37%.
The transferred lending volumes would accordingly have had to be covered by some DEM 400 million in equity capital and would have reduced the recognised amount by the same figure.
The trouble I refer to could be the equivalent of between 3% and 5% of all their emissions, which is to say the same figure as that for the combined emissions reduction obligation for all industrialised countries under the Kyoto Protocol by 2012.
The rapporteur stresses in his report that the objective of the proposal is to arrive at the same figure, regardless of the statistical sources used, and in reality this is our objective.
An amount expressed in a particular national monetary unit, when converted into the corresponding amount in European monetary units and rounded, and subsequently reconverted into the original national monetary unit and again rounded, may not always lead to exactly the same figure.
I will use the same figure of speech the former Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko of the former Soviet Union used referring to the present Chairman of the Russian Social Democratic People's Party, Mikhail Gorbachov: the Ombudsman must have iron teeth.
BERNARDO: In the same figure, like the king that's dead.

Alternatives:

the identical figure
the equal figure
the same number

the same shape

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when talking about the form or outline of an object that remains unchanged.