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 When I go back and forth with this idiomatic stigma I can't even now decide if this term "zeros" is a synonym or a homonym, or if maybe it IS BOTH! I know it's many things more I've yet to discover.Now I once did hear somebody comment to someone else about Zero which they heard somebody commenting, that "Zero (finally) IS THE greatest number known" to man because IT IS the only number or numeral in existence that cannot be divided!   webmaster@engrish.com might help us out! Says the Wikipedia "0 as a numeral" The modern numeral 0 is normally written as a circle or (rounded) rectangle. On the seven-segment displays of calculators, watches, etc., 0 is usually written with six line segments (at right), though on some historical calculator models it was written with four line segments. This variant glyph has not
caught on.It is important to distinguish the number zero (as in the "zero brothers" example above) from the numeral or digit zero, used in numeral systems where the position of a digit signifies its value. Successive positions of digits have higher values, so the digit zero is used to skip a position and give appropriate value to the preceding and following digits. By the mid second millennium BC, Babylonians had a sophisticated sexagesimal positional numeral system. The lack of a positional value (or zero) was indicated by a space between sexagesimal numerals. By 300 BC a punctuation symbol (two slanted wedges) was co-opted as a placeholder in the same Babylonian system. However, "... a tablet found at Kish ... thought to date from around 700 BC, uses three hooks to denote an empty place in the positional notation. Other tablets dated from around the same time use a single hook for an empty place" ([1] and Natural number. Records show that the Ancient Greeks seemed unsure about the status of zero as a number: they asked themselves "how can 'nothing' be something?", leading to interesting philosophical and, by the Medieval period, religious arguments about the nature and existence of zero and the vacuum. The paradoxes of Zeno of Elea depend in large part on the uncertain interpretation of zero. (The ancient Greeks even questioned that 1 was a number.)Zero (0) is both a number and a numeral. The natural number following zero is one and no natural number precedes zero. Zero may or may not be counted as a natural number, depending on the definition of natural numbers. Zero is neither prime nor composite. In set theory, the number zero is the size of the empty set: if one does not have any apples, then one has zero apples. In fact, in certain axiomatic developments of mathematics from set theory, zero is defined to be the empty set. The following are some basic rules for dealing with the number zero. These rules apply for any complex number x, unless otherwise stated. Addition: x + 0 = x and 0 + x = x. (That is, 0 is an identity element with respect to addition.) Subtraction: x − 0 = x and 0 − x = − x. Multiplication: x ¡¤ 0 = 0 ¡¤ x = 0. Division: 0 / x = 0, for nonzero x. But x / 0 is undefined, because 0 has no multiplicative inverse, a consequence of the previous rule. Exponentiation: x0 = 1, except that the case x = 0 may be left undefined in some contexts. For all positive real x, 0x = 0. The expression "0/0" is an "indeterminate form". That does not simply mean that it is undefined; rather, it means that if f(x) and g(x) both approach 0 as x approaches some number, then f(x)/g(x) could approach any finite number or ¡Ä or −¡Ä; it depends on which functions f and g are. See L'Hospital's rule. The sum of 0 numbers is 0, and the product of 0 numbers is 1. The oval-shaped zero (appearing like a rugby ball stood on end) and rectangular letter O together came into use on modern character displays. The zero with a dot in the center seems to have originated as an option on IBM 3270 controllers (this has the problem that it looks like the Greek letter Theta). The slashed zero, looking identical to the letter O other than the slash, is used in old-style ASCII graphic sets descended from the default type wheel on the venerable ASR-33 Teletype. This format causes problems for certain Scandinavian languages which use ¨ª as a letter. The convention which has the letter O with a slash and the zero without was used at IBM and a few other early mainframe makers; this is even more problematic for Scandinavians because it means two of their letters collide. Some Burroughs/Unisys equipment displays a zero with a reversed slash. And yet another convention common on early line printers left zero non-ornamented but added a tail or hook to the letter-O so that it resembled an inverted Q or cursive capital letter-O. The typeface used on some European number plates for cars distinguish the two symbols by making the O rather egg-shaped and the zero more rectangular, but most of all by opening the zero on the upper right side, so here the circle is not closed any more (as in German plates). In paper writing one may not distinguish the 0 and O at all, or may add a slash across it in order to show the difference, although this sometimes causes ambiguity in regard to the symbol for the null set.
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