Names for the number 0 in English a formal reading of a team's scoresheet. There is no definitive origin for the tennis score name for 0, "love". It firstly occurred in English, is of comparatively recent origin, and is not used in other languages. The most commonly believed hypothesis is that it is derived from English speakers mis-hearing the French "l'œuf", "the egg", which was the name for a score of zero used in French, because the symbol for a zero used on the scoreboard was an elliptical zero symbol, which visually resembled an egg. There is tangential support for this in the use of "duck" as
Zero of a function generally used when there are infinitely many zeros, and they have some non-trivial topological properties. For example, a level set of a function formula_1 is the zero set of formula_26. The cozero set of formula_1 is the complement of the zero set of formula_1 (i.e., the subset of formula_23 on which formula_1 is nonzero). In algebraic geometry, the first definition of an algebraic variety is through zero sets. Specifically, an affine algebraic set is the intersection of the zero sets of several polynomials in a polynomial ring formula_31 over a field. In this context, a zero set is sometimes called