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naughts

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plural of naught

as in zeros

the numerical symbol 0 or the absence of number or quantity represented by it my locker number is naught-seven-two

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Those sizes vary from size four all the way down to zero, but even the zeros weren’t small enough.

— Marti Noxon, HollywoodReporter, 26 Aug. 2026
Each number is expressed with three additional zeroes, yet going from a million to a billion requires adding 999 million.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026

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