Names for the number 0 in English the score was not placed upon a scoreboard, and there is scant evidence that the French ever used "l'oeuf" as the name for a zero score in the first place, that name being as anecdotal as the hypothesis that "love" is then derived from it. (Jacob Bernoulli, for example, in his "Letter to a Friend", used "à but" to describe the initial zero–zero score in court tennis, which in English is "love-all".) Some alternative hypotheses have similar problems. For example: The assertion that "love" comes from the Scots word "luff", meaning "nothing", falls at the first hurdle, because there is
Zero-player game beyond human capabilities. Solutions for even more complex games, such as chess or Go must exist (as per Zermelo's theorem) but they have yet to be computed. Zero-player game A zero-player game or no-player game is a game that has no sentient players. In computer games, the term refers to programs that use artificial intelligence rather than human players. The term can also refer to games of pure chance, such as bunco, in which participants cannot take any action or make any decision that meaningfully alters the outcome. Conway's Game of Life, a cellular automaton devised in 1970 by the