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Show Why "0" Is Round. As every ono knows, tho letter "o" ft Is tho fifteenth In tho English alphabet. alpha-bet. It has four sounds, ono of which, ns In go, In probably ono of tho oldest and helped to fix Us shape. Tho letter let-ter In tho Hebrew and Phoenician alphabet al-phabet that corresponded to tho long o was called nyn. or eye, and was represented rep-resented by a rudo drawing of nn eye. Of courno this was often rendered simply as a circle with a dot in tho middle, and at last It beenmo tho cub- torn to omit tho dot, which gavo us mere!) a circle, tho present form of tho letter. |