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Apparently, it comes from the word "Zhalen" which is the German word for "Number". Apparently this word was chosen by N.Bourbaki, a group of mathematicians aiming to write a thorough unified account of all mathematics.

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More information on N.Bourbaki group:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

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The letter Z is used to represent integers because it comes from the German word "Zahlen," which means numbers. It is commonly used in mathematics to denote the set of all integers, positive, negative, and zero.

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