We study 0-dimensional real rank one valuations centered in a
regular local ring of dimension $n\geq 2$ such that the associated
valuation ring can be obtained from the regular ring by a sequence
of quadratic transforms. We define two classical invariants
associated to the valuation (the refined proximity matrix and the
multiplicity sequence) and we show that are equivalent data of the
valuation.
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