Why does zero come before one? Why do you make ten by adding zero to one?

Answer 1

The number zero was invented independently in India. But they used an empty space for zero up to 3rd
Century BC. This was confusing for an empty space was also used to separate numbers, and so they invented the dot for a zero. The first evidence for the use of
the symbol that we now know as zero stems from the 7th century AD. Indians invented the number zero for their calendars in the 3rd century AD.The number zero reached European civilisation through the Arabs after 800 AD. World owes to India for inventing zero, a prerequisite for any scientific advancement.

zero comes before 1, because as one of the definition states zero between positive and negative numbers.

We make ten by adding zero since this is the best way to organise the number system. Now why only 10, I believe it could be because man has 10 fingures in hands and toes and earlier Indian mathematecians would have thought to have basic numbers to count up to 10, everything rest is made up of thse basic numbers.

Answer 2

If you add items one-by-one to a box, zero permits you to express the idea that there are no (zero) items in the box before adding one item. When you reach nine items, it would be possible to name a new quantity to represent ten (as we do with historical eleven or twelve) but 10, 100, 1,000 allow us to count with far less one-use-only numbers. The decimal system based on ten facilitates calculations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication or division with greater ease than with (for example) Roman numerals that were used mainly for counting.

Answer 3

adding zero to the front of a 1 makes the # smaller,adding it behind makes the # bigger

how else would you make 10? got to have some # or it will still be 1

Answer 4

It's a consequence of having a Base 10 number system.

Answer 5

Ask your teacher about base ten numbers.