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This also causes the winding/unwinding issue, albeit only for the innermost level. The latter example also restarts the list's numbering. When writing two consecutive unbulleted paragraphs, prefixing both with the same number of colons avoids the worst issues, but risks confusing people that a new person's message has begun.
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The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t ər ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
Other formats include a written worksheet round, where teams work together for 2–5 minutes to agree on their written answers. [20] [21] [22] Match length is determined by either a game clock or the number of questions in a packet. [3] [17] In most formats, a game ends once the moderator has finished reading every question in a packet, usually ...
Simple commands which start with a colon (:) are interpreted with respect to the root of the command tree. Otherwise, they refer implicitly to the last node of the previous command (unless they already begin with an asterisk). For example, :SOURce:FREQuency:STARt 100;STOP 200 is a shorthand for the message
Asterisk, Dagger: Footnote ¤ Scarab (non-Unicode name) ('Scarab' is an informal name for the generic currency sign) § Section sign: section symbol, section mark, double-s, 'silcrow' Pilcrow; Semicolon: Colon ℠ Service mark symbol: Trademark symbol / Slash (non-Unicode name) Division sign, Forward Slash: also known as "stroke" / Solidus
The following example of a SELECT query returns a list of expensive books. The query retrieves all rows from the Book table in which the price column contains a value greater than 100.00. The result is sorted in ascending order by title. The asterisk (*) in the select list indicates that all columns of the Book table should be included in the ...
The 1949 edition of the IPA handbook indicated that an asterisk * might be prefixed to indicate that a word was a proper name, [50] but this convention was not included in the 1999 Handbook, which notes the contrary use of the asterisk as a placeholder for a sound or feature that does not have a symbol. [51]