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Zero" is the usual name for the number 0 in English. In British English "nought" is also used and in American English "naught" is used occasionally for zero, but (as with British English) "naught" is more often used as an archaic word for nothing. "Nil", "love", and "duck" are used by different sports for scores of zero.
The character 零 (pinyin: líng) means "zero" in Chinese, although 〇 is also common.Etymologically 零 is an onomatopoeic word for "light rain". The upper part of the character is 雨, meaning "rain", and the lower part is 令 (lìng), for the sound.
Ternary: The base-three numeral system with 0, 1, and 2 as digits. Quaternary : The base-four numeral system with 0, 1, 2, and 3 as digits. Hexadecimal : Base 16, widely used by computer system designers and programmers, as it provides a more human-friendly representation of binary-coded values.
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
1–0 British English: one-nil; American English: one-nothing, one-zip, or one-zero; 0–0 British English: nil-nil or nil all; American English: zero-zero or nothing-nothing, (occasionally scoreless or no score) 2–2 two-two or two all; American English also twos, two to two, even at two, or two up.
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The modern use of 0 in this manner derives from Indian mathematics that was transmitted to Europe via medieval Islamic mathematicians and popularized by Fibonacci. It was independently used by the Maya. Common names for the number 0 in English include zero, nought, naught (/ n ɔː t /), and nil.
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