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How do we count nothing?

Imagine you're playing a game where you have to count apples in a basket. You reach into an empty basket and wonder how many apples you have.

If you have an empty basket, you have zero apples. Zero is the starting point for counting anything. It's the number that represents no quantity at all.

Example

If you had 5 apples and then took 5 away, you'd have zero apples left.

Remember this

Zero is the number that signifies the absence of any quantity.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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