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In the programming language "Visual Basic" it was a kind of "value" to actually get something "undefined". In database systems, that "undefined" state is the only one arithmetically that keeps different types of data contents (such as integers or floats) distinctive to each other. Thus "0" could both mean "0" and "0.0". Thus "nothing" would mean "really nothing, stop asking" xD