| 41. | My grandfather said his father called 1901 " aught one, " and that's what 2001 should be called.
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| 42. | Finally, there's the question of the aughts and naughts, leading candidates for naming the years of the next decade.
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| 43. | Jim Otto ( " aught-oh " ) wore number " 00 " during most of his career with the Oakland Raiders.
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| 44. | Sal Cinquemani from Slant Magazine had listed the song at number 116 on their Rest of the Best of the Aughts Top 500.
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| 45. | Starting with 2 for very coarse, the sequence works down to 10 aught, for very fine and printed as 10 / 0.
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| 46. | Thoreau describes his fascination with lichens as sometimes being so strong it " prevents my seeing aught else in a walk ."
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| 47. | I suspect that's a relatively standard format for such things in minerological circles, and so it aught to be explained somewhere.
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| 48. | Late in life he was able to declare that he had never committed aught to writing save by the motion of the Holy Ghost.
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| 49. | However, " aught " and " ought " are also sometimes used as names for 0, in contradiction of their strict meanings.
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| 50. | The word " aught " continues in use for 0 in a series of one or more for sizes larger than 1.
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