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bryanlarsen
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the hacker news markdown parser seems to have swallowed your asterisks, which are essential to understanding your comment.
trealira
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Yeah, if you want to use asterisks without italicizing your text, you need to escape them with backslashes, and then you can write things like 5 * 2 * 1 = 10. That is, you'd write it like this:
5 \* 2 \* 1 = 10
andyferris
5 months ago
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Is there a place this is all written down? It's not in the FAQ...
loupol
5 months ago
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https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
lerno
5 months ago
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Yes, and I was too slow to getting back and trying to edit it. Sorry about that.
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