Origin of Name
Although he performed under the name Cypher Zero as early as 1995, it was not a legal name until 1998. The exact origin of the name "Cypher Zero" is not confirmed. Cypher, on several occasions, attributed it to an epiphany he had while researching the history of number systems at Villanova University.
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