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"?
Re: Talking just about Numerals here.
32-I see LE MAT as zero on a conceptual,etimological sense.
It s mean in sanscrit "void","empty.Has an Indian origin as Umbrae pointed before.
It s mean in sanscrit "void","empty.Has an Indian origin as Umbrae pointed before.
Re: Talking just about Numerals here.
33"...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.
Fool: The cipher among numbers / figures.
34The 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.
“O beane, O asine, O foetide hirce, O olens capra, O bufo, O cifra, O figura nihili, O tu omnino nihil.”
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WFMH ... &q&f=false
It is with English description in chapter vi: 'The Jocund Advent' of Medieval University Life, here:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20958/20 ... 0958-h.htm