The Asterisk symbol is denoted by the command \ast. Same symbol is on your keyboard, but it has two different uses.
| Symbol | Asterisk |
|---|---|
| Type of symbol | Mathematics |
| Package | No |
| Argument | No |
| Latex command | \ast |
| Example | \ast → ＊ |
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
$$ C\ast de $$
$$ C*de $$
$$ G\ast\ast d $$
$$ G**d $$
\end{document}Output :
At the same time, we use two asterisk symbols in pairs in different words. If you look at the output above you will understand that there is a space-related problem.
Which is shown in the following code.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{MnSymbol}
\begin{document}
$ G\ast\ast\; d $\\[6pt]
G $\ast\;\ast$ d \\[6pt]
G $*\;*$ d \\[6pt]
B $*\;*$ k
\end{document}Output :
Big asterisk symbol in LaTeX
\bigast command is not the default. For this, you need to take the help of mathabx package.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathabx}
\begin{document}
$$ f(\bigast)g $$
$$ f\bigast_b^a g $$
\end{document}Output :
Use asterisk symbol in Superscript in LaTeX
If you use this symbol from the keyboard in direct text mode, the asterisk symbol will act as a superscript.
And you will need to manually complete the same task using the command.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\begin{document}
$ q=b_1b_2\; \epsilon\; \mathbb{Z}^\ast $ \\[6pt]
$q=b_1b_2\; \epsilon\; \mathbb{Z}$* \\[6pt]
2+5*10+9*7
A * * D
\end{document}Output :
Asterisk symbols of different styles
Below are a variety of styled asterisk symbols represented in a latex document using the bbding and pifont packages.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{bbding,pifont}
\begin{document}
% Use bbding package
\SixFlowerOpenCenter, \SixFlowerPetalRemoved, \Asterisk\\[6pt]
\AsteriskBold, \AsteriskCenterOpen, \AsteriskRoundedEnds \\[6pt]
\AsteriskThin, \AsteriskThinCenterOpen, \SixFlowerRemovedOpenPetal\\[6pt]
% Use pifont package
\ding{81}, \ding{82}, \ding{83}\\[6pt]
\ding{91}, \ding{92}, \ding{93}\\[6pt]
\end{document}Output :
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