Re: Talking just about Numerals here.
31The Fool would probably never have been equal to One, that was the Magician's number. Is there anything to suggest that he would have been equal to Zero? Is Zero the same as "unnumbered", or "without worth"?
"...in 13th century Paris a worthless fellow or good for nothing was called a 'cifre en algorisme, that is, an 'arithmetical nothing.'
Ifrah - Universal History of Numbers.
The chant used as part of a medieval university initiation ritual (german):SteveM wrote:"...in 13th century Paris a worthless fellow or good for nothing was called a 'cifre en algorisme, that is, an 'arithmetical nothing.'
Ifrah - Universal History of Numbers.