I get your point, and am generally of the mindset that technically correct is the best kind of correct. But masscomm isn't technical writing. To the people who

I get your point, and am generally of the mindset that technically correct is the best kind of correct. But masscomm isn't technical writing. To the people who already don't understand, it's more misleading to pretend the amount is meaningfully more than zero, than to call a negligible amount "zero."