zero
The origin and history of zero.
Etymology
Traces back through French and Italian to an Arabic word for "empty" or "nothing," which itself translated a Sanskrit term for the void — the same root that gives us "cipher."
The origin and history of zero.
Traces back through French and Italian to an Arabic word for "empty" or "nothing," which itself translated a Sanskrit term for the void — the same root that gives us "cipher."
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