Aodh Macs Blog

The Etymology of ‘gamma’ in Ancient Greek. Figure 1:   A capital ‘gamma’ on the left, and a small ‘gamma’ on the right. In Classical Greek, the third letter of the alphabet is: or: or: γάμμα or: ‘gámma’ or: ‘gamma’ .  This Ancient-Greek letter is said to be cognate with the Hebrew letter: Gimmel Hebrew Letter ...

The Asterisk Symbol in C:     Figure 1:   I scripted this asterisk in SVG.  You can view the source-code of this asterisk at my Codepen account. This symbol, in the C programming language, represents the multiplication operator. Multiplication, in C, is a binary [1] .   multiplicative operation.      Snippet 1:   The above-depicted program illustrates the use of the asterisk, in C, as a multiplication operator.      Figure 2:   What the program depicted above in Figure 2  looks like when compiled and run. The asterisk symbol, in CSS, is termed ‘the universal selector.’  It targets all of the elements of an HTML 5 document, so as to apply the values of style properties thereto. In SQL, the asterisk symbol represents ...