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Re:The oldest "0" in India for which one can assign a defini... by salimmadjd on Friday May 24, 2013 @02:28PM (#5764526)
OT: in Arabic Zero is "Ciphr" or "Cipher" where we get the words decipher or cipher from.
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Re:The oldest "0" in India for which one can assign a defini... by carlob on Friday May 24, 2013 @06:53PM (#5765657)
In many romance languages it is the root of the word we use for digit. It, es: cifra, fr: chiffre, ro: cifrǎ. In Portuguese the word is algarismo and it comes from al-Khwārizmī [0], who gives the name to algorithm as well.
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Re:The oldest "0" in India for which one can assign a defini... by raghuinc on Saturday May 25, 2013 @04:25AM (#5766702)
In Tamil, its still called cyber.
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