The Asterisk Symbol in C



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 "ALL".

[1].  As regards C programming, a ‘binary operation’ is an operation that takes two operands.  This is not to be confused with binary or base-2 arithmetic.



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