Is zero a number or the absence of a number?

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I have looked at several different articles/explanations but they either have contradictory statements or they use esoteric language that I cant wrap my head around. pls help

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Modern mathematics is formalized in the so called “peano axioms”.
This is a set of statements that define what is a number and how numbers behave.

The first peano axiom is exactly your answer: “**0 is a natural number**”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

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