> I find nothing natural in doing operations related to zero i.e. related to nothingness, meaning that I see “adding” and “zero times” as an oxymoron (you canno

> I find nothing natural in doing operations related to zero i.e. related to nothingness, meaning that I see “adding” and “zero times” as an oxymoron (you cannot associate an action, “adding”, to nothingness, i.e. to “zero”). Seems related to [this problem](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47783926/why-are-loops-always-compiled-into-do-while-style-tail-jump https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47783926/why-are-loops-a...). This is, a proper loop is like do while (condition) { // ... body .... } , where each iteration checks for the condition. But some folks might feel like a loop should always just do something first and then consider if it should repeat, i.e. do { // ... body .... } while (condition) From that sort of perspective, zero might seem kinda unnatural and contrived, sorta like if (!zero) { do { // ... body .... } while (condition) } In other words, the fallacy might in some assumption that doing something multiple times means doing it once and then possibly more times.