Q: Is an asterisk usually five-pointed in sans-serif typefaces? ¶
A: Yes, and six-pointed in serif typefaces, and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten.
Q: Is an asterisk used to signify exponentiation: 5**3 is 5*5*5 or 125? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used to divide a verse of a Psalm in two portions for responsive reading? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Was an asterisk used to emphasize a particular part of text? ¶
A: Yes, and often linking those parts of the text to a marginal comment.
Q: Is an asterisk commonly used as a wildcard character? ¶
A: Yes, or to denote pointers, repetition, or multiplication.
Q: Is an asterisk used to call out a footnote? ¶
A: Yes, and especially when there is only one on the page.
Q: Are asterisks sometimes used as an alternative to typographical bullets to indicate items of a list? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are asterisks used as "violation marks" in tableau cells to denote a violation of a constraint by an output form? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used to indicate that a record is somehow tainted by circumstances? ¶
A: Yes, and which are putatively explained in a footnote referenced by the asterisk.
Q: Is an asterisk the display command to retrieve all or part of a Passenger Name Record? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are asterisks used to denote an action the user is "performing", e.g? ¶
A: Yes, *pulls out a paper*, although this usage is also common on forums, and less so on most chat rooms due to /me or similar commands.
Q: Is an asterisk used in regular expressions to denote zero or more repetitions of a pattern? ¶
A: Yes, this use is also known as the Kleene star or Kleene closure after Stephen Kleene.
Q: Are asterisks often used to replace letters? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk derived from the need of the printers of family trees in feudal times for a symbol to indicate date of birth? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used to indicate a marginal comment or scripture reference? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk that it stems from the five thousand year old Sumerian character dingir? ¶
A: Yes, and ð’€, though this hypothesis seems to only be based on visual appearance.
Q: Was an asterisk not always used? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are asterisks used to denote different footnotes on a page? ¶
A: Yes, Typically, an asterisk is positioned after a word or phrase and preceding its accompanying footnote.
Q: Is an asterisk employed as a shorthand to denote the statistical significance of results when testing hypotheses? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are asterisks commonly used to denote economic variables in a foreign country? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk placed before a word or phrase to indicate that it is not used? ¶
A: Yes, or there are no records of it being in use.
Q: Is an asterisk often used to denote a deliberate pause? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Was an asterisk sometimes used to denote that the word it preceded was a proper noun? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are asterisks displayed? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk the wildcard character and stands for any string of characters? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk placed after all other punctuation marks except for the dash? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used to denote zero to many classes? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used to dereference or to declare a pointer variable? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used to mark off the seven subdivisions of the weekly Torah portion? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used to refer to the typeglob of all variables with a given name? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk pre- or appended to the current working document name shown in a window's title bar to indicate that unsaved changes exist? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is an asterisk used in all branches of mathematics to designate a correspondence between two quantities denoted by the same letter – one with the asterisk and one without? ¶
A: Yes.