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The asterisk (/ ˈ æ s t ər ɪ s k / *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star", [1] [2] is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
The turnstile represents a binary relation.It has several different interpretations in different contexts: . In epistemology, Per Martin-Löf (1996) analyzes the symbol thus: "...[T]he combination of Frege's Urteilsstrich, judgement stroke [ | ], and Inhaltsstrich, content stroke [—], came to be called the assertion sign."
In those countries where the amount preceded the national currency sign, the euro sign is again placed in that relative position (e.g., 3,50 €). In English the euro sign – like the dollar sign $ and the pound sign £ – is usually placed before the figure, unspaced, [ 8 ] the reverse of usage in many other European languages.