Does Binomial and Poisson distributions have to start from 0 instead of a positive integer as the value of first bin?

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That's the definition of those distributions. But you could define a new random variable that is equal to a binomial or poisson random variable plus some constant that you like. In that case, the smallest value that new random variable could take on would be nonzero.