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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
0
adj
  1. indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"
    Synonym(s): zero, 0
n
  1. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
    Synonym(s): zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   0   Numeric zero, as opposed to the letter `O' (the 15th letter
   of the English alphabet).   In their unmodified forms they look a lot
   alike, and various kluges invented to make them visually distinct
   have compounded the confusion.   If your zero is center-dotted and
   letter-O is not, or if letter-O looks almost rectangular but zero
   looks more like an American football stood on end (or the reverse),
   you're probably looking at a modern character display (though the
   dotted zero seems to have originated as an option on IBM 3270
   controllers).   If your zero is slashed but letter-O is not, you're
   probably looking at an old-style ASCII graphic set descended from
   the default typewheel on the venerable ASR-33 Teletype
   (Scandinavians, for whom /O is a letter, curse this arrangement).
   (Interestingly, the slashed zero long predates computers; Florian
   Cajori's monumental "A History of Mathematical Notations" notes that
   it was used in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.) If letter-O
   has a slash across it and the zero does not, your display is tuned
   for a very old convention used at IBM and a few other early
   mainframe makers (Scandinavians curse _this_ arrangement even more,
   because it means two of their letters collide).   Some
   Burroughs/Unisys equipment displays a zero with a _reversed_ slash.
   Old CDC computers rendered letter O as an unbroken oval and 0 as an
   oval broken at upper right and lower left.   And yet another
   convention common on early line printers left zero unornamented but
   added a tail or hook to the letter-O so that it resembled an
   inverted Q or cursive capital letter-O (this was endorsed by a draft
   ANSI standard for how to draw ASCII characters, but the final
   standard changed the distinguisher to a tick-mark in the upper-left
   corner).   Are we sufficiently confused yet?
  
  
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