This is a tangled story of two zeroes: zero as a symbol to represent nothing, and zero as a number that can be used in calculations and has its own mathematical properties. It is natural to think the two are the same. History teaches us something different.
Zero the symbol was in fact the first of the two to pop up by a long chalk.
The New Scientist (sub required)
The article does not go into Zero as a brand - a more recent phenomenon. Photo Credit
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