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It is strange that when Arabic and Hebrew languages are written from left to write, that is not the case with numbers, a common saying in Arabic is 'zero on the left', that means worthless. Arabs in old times hated zero because it signified no gains in trade and wars, and was called a vacuum sign because any number multiplied by it ended up with nothing, the Arabic zero word ‘cepher ‘ was a translation of Sanskrit word śūnya that meant empty. The first English use of zero was in 1598. Al-Khwarizmi or Algorismus made common in use in 773 in Baghdad.