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An asterisk, not to be confused with Asterix who is a cartoon character, is used to denote multiplication (or times) ie a*b = a times b. Some old programming languages/computers used double asterisks to denote exponentiation ie a**b = ab.

This was because x was often used to denote a variable and its use to denote multiplication could cause confusion.

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