What’s this symbol called * ?

It would be interesting to know if this is only true for English language keyboards.

Basilisk?! That is a mythological creature that if you stare at it you will turn to stone.

Reminds me of the trademarked Goodson-Todman asterisks from The Price Is Right.

lol, when I was a computer programmer eons ago. we used to use an asterisk instead of the English x and zeroes always had a diagonal line through them. if you were coding formulae the difference between X and the times symbol or zero and the letter O was important! Coding ideas were written in long hand before submitting to a computer. oh laughing, that thing about putting a line in a 7, makes it look like a 4. laughing

BrainTek , thanks. I was going to have to look this up, but you saved me the trouble.

the asterisk * the ampersand &