20 July 2007

NULL, ZIP, NADA, RIEN ...

Etymology :-
The word "zero" came via French zéro from Venetian language zero, which (together with "cipher") came via Italian zefiro from Arabic şafira = "it was empty", şifr = "zero", "nothing", which was used to translate Sanskrit śūnya ( शून्य ), meaning void or empty.

DID u know :-
0 (Zero) is both a number and a numerical digit used to represent that number in numerals.
Zero Coca-cola.It is a sugar-free variation of Coca-Cola
Zero Year, applied to the takeover of Cambodia in 1975 by the Khmer Rouge, is an analogy to the Year One of the French Revolutionary Calendar.
Zero day, software, media, or information that is obtained either prior to or on the day of the official release
Zero, is also a Brazilian cartoonist and illustrator journalist (Did the name symbolize anything ;))
Zero is a fictional android in the Marvel Comics Universe. It first appeared in New Mutants as a member of the Mutant Liberation Front and was killed in Excalibur #80.
Zero (Star Trek), a villain in the Star Trek: The Q Continuum series
Zero, in linguistics, is a constituent needed in an analysis but not realized in speech. It also means a lack of an element as opposed to other elements. It is usually written "Ø".


And to top it ALL .. the grand ultimate definition of ZERO

ZERO .... that's all i know about Financial Accounting.
p.s: This post only reflects my own perambulations and does not reflect the enormous efforts of my C.A friends and lecturers in trying to adapt my brain to the concepts and conventions of Balance Sheets & Income Statements, all of which due to non-conformity to any equational statistics definitely act as a unbreakable conundrum to this Engineering Brain.


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