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Comment author: wedrifid 05 July 2012 10:21:29PM *  2 points [-]

When writing out equations using an asterisk as a multiplication symbol prepend it with a backslash like this:
"3 \* 4". Markdown treats anything between two separate asterisks as italics and backslash is the escape character.

Comment author: novalis 06 July 2012 03:48:27AM -2 points [-]

Thanks.