Number
0
0 — Zero
0 is even.
Zero is the additive identity of the integers. It is neither positive nor negative, and is the only integer that is neither prime nor composite. The Babylonians used a placeholder for zero by 300 BCE, but its treatment as a true number is generally credited to Indian mathematicians, with Brahmagupta giving the first explicit rules for arithmetic with zero in 628 CE.
Properties
Representations
- In words
- zero
- Ordinal
- 0th
- Binary
- 0
- Octal
- 0
- Hexadecimal
- 0x0
- Base64
- AA==
- One's complement
- 255 (8-bit)
In other bases
ternary (3)
0
quaternary (4)
0
quinary (5)
0
senary (6)
0
septenary (7)
0
nonary (9)
0
undecimal (11)
0
duodecimal (12)
0
tridecimal (13)
0
tetradecimal (14)
0
pentadecimal (15)
0
Historical numeral systems
- Mayan (base 20)
- 𝋠
- Chinese
- 零
- Chinese (financial)
- 零
In other modern scripts
Eastern Arabic
٠
Devanagari
०
Bengali
০
Tamil
௦
Thai
๐
Tibetan
༠
Khmer
០
Lao
໐
Burmese
၀
Also seen as
ASCII character
As an ASCII codepoint, 0 is NUL (null). ASCII control character.
Hex color
#000000
RGB(0, 0, 0)
IPv4 address
As an unsigned 32-bit integer, this is the IPv4 address 0.0.0.0.
- Address
- 0.0.0.0
- Class
- reserved
- IPv4-mapped IPv6
- ::ffff:0.0.0.0
Unspecified address (0.0.0.0/8) — "this network" placeholder.
Geographic coordinate
As a geographic coordinate in degrees, this matches:
- Equator (latitude) — 0° latitude — the equator divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
- Prime Meridian (longitude) — 0° longitude — passes through the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, London; the reference for UTC.