Freecodecamp: Incorrect description of test suites that break the logic of the task

[5Mountains]

Describe your problem and how to reproduce it:
In order to find a bug, you should open the link and check the description of the test suites, namely multiplication by 8: repeatStringNumTimes("*", 8) should return "****".

The task "Repeat a String Repeat a String" in the "Basic Algorithm Scripting" Challenge has a bug in indicating the number of asterisks (I believe that expected to be 8) because the test does not pass when outputting 4 asterisks if multiplied by 8.

The test is passed when the number of asterisks equals multiplier.

I checked it several times on different browsers and devices.
Browsers:

• Google Chrome - 86.0.4240.111 (64bit)
• Mozila FireFox - 82.0 (64bit)

Operating System:

• Windows 10 Pro (64bit), version - 2004, build - 19041.572

Mobile Browser:

• Safari v. 14.1 (iPhone 7 Plus)

Add a Link to the page with the problem:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/javascript-algorithms-and-data-structures/basic-algorithm-scripting/repeat-a-string-repeat-a-string

Recommended fix, suggestions (how would you update it?):
Changed the task description to the correct one: repeatStringNumTimes("*", 8) should return "********".

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[nhcarrigan]

Nice catch!

@ojeytonwilliams - is this one also a markdown parsing issue? I see the string in the file contains ******** but renders on the page as ****.

[ojeytonwilliams]

Yes, that's right. If you look closely, you can see they're italicized.

This, and a bunch of related issues, will be fixed as part of moving to MDX.

[5Mountains]

Great! Many thanks for your enthusiastic work!) 👍

[nhcarrigan]

I'll go ahead and close this as related to #39177. Thanks again @5Mountains for the catch~!