Eleventh Smallest Positive Integer

“Eleventh smallest positive integer” - I thought it’s 10, not 11 because I counted zero as one of the smallest positive integers.

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Why are the eleventh smallest integers from 1 to 11 rather than 0 to 10?

Zero is neither positive nor negative

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