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09:57 Friday, July 16

When the Indians were teaching about tennis, they said that the term love was derived from a Greek word meaning egg, since it looked like a zero. I asked why did they not just use a word that meant zero. So some smarties confidently replied that it was because the Arabs came up with the concept of zero. So why didn't they just use an Arab word that meant zero? This implies that the game of tennis was devised before the Arabs, since they couldn't come up with a better way to say nothing. ALSO, wouldn't the use of an egg represent a concept of zero? How can you have a game that uses a score of nothing and not call it a concept of nothing? Unless, of course, tennis was actually devised after the Arabs, in which case they should've just used the Arab word for zero.

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