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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM |
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ZERO , the figure 0 in the Arabic notation for numbers, nought, cipher . The Arabic name for the figure was sifr, which meant literally an empty thing. The old Latin writers on arithmetic translated or transliterated the Arabic word as zephyrum; this in Ital. became zefiro, contracted to zero, borrowed by F. zero, whence it came late
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cipher " which is thus a doublet. In physics, the term
instrument between a positive and negative or ascending and descending scale
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