Tarot cards: Major arcana numbers
Major arcana contains 22 cards, each of which has its own name and its traditional number. It should be noted that Arthur Edward Waite, for some reason, swapped two cards with numbers VIII and XI in comparison with traditional tarot decks (for example, the Marseille Tarot). It's hard for me to say what it gave him, but the author of another famous deck, Aleister Crowley, returned the previous arrangement of the cards. Programmers will be pleased to know that card numbering in the Major Arcana traditionally starts from zero, not from one. It is widely believed that zero appeared relatively recently and the ancient Greeks did not know it. But this is not true. Zero was used even in mathematical works in ancient Babylon, from where it came to Greece. However, Greek mathematics was focused mainly on geometric constructions, so zero was simply not popular there, although it was used to denote empty space. I made this small digression so that the presence of a zero in the numbering of Ta
