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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 379 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIPHER, or CYPHER (from Arab. sifr, void) , the
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symbol o, nought, or zero; and so a name for symbolic or
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secret
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writing (see
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CRYPTOGRAPHY), or even for shorthand (q.v.), and also in elementary
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education for doing
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simple sums (" ciphering ") .

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