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the hacker news markdown parser seems to have swallowed your asterisks, which are essential to understanding your comment.
by bryanlarsen 1y ago
the hacker news markdown parser seems to have swallowed your asterisks, which are essential to understanding your comment.
- trealira 1y agoYeah, 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 1y agoIs there a place this is all written down? It's not in the FAQ...
- loupol 1y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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- lerno 1y agoYes, and I was too slow to getting back and trying to edit it. Sorry about that.