What specific figure used to mean the word figure? Detailed answer

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What specific figure used to mean the word figure?

The word "digit" goes back to the Arabic "digit", which means "zero, empty". In most European languages, as in Russian, this word eventually began to denote any numerical character. Only in English one of the meanings of the word cipher is still "zero, fiction".

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What was discipline in the Napoleonic army based on?

The methods of maintaining discipline in the Napoleonic army differed significantly from those adopted at that time in the armies of other countries.

Napoleon did not allow corporal punishment in the army. The military court sentenced in case of serious crimes to death or penal servitude, in milder cases - to military prison. But a particularly authoritative institution for maintaining military discipline was a comrades' court, which was not indicated anywhere in the laws, but with the tacit consent of Napoleon, acted in his troops.

Here is an example given in the book of Academician E. V. Tarle "Napoleon". There was a battle. In the company they noticed that no one saw two soldiers during the battle. They came towards the end and explained their absence. The company, convinced that the perpetrators were simply hiding, immediately chose three judges from among the soldiers. They listened to the accused, sentenced them to death, and immediately, on the spot, executed the sentence. The authorities knew all this, but did not interfere. Not a single officer was supposed not only to participate in the trial, but even to know (officially, at least) about the execution that had taken place.

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