I still don’t know if it goes ground floor, second floor or ground floor, first floor, second floor

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    6 months ago

    Other countries treat the question more as “how many floors from the ground are you?” than what you’re used to. After all, what floor is 0?

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      6 months ago

      My inner computer scientist likes this framing, and understands its logic. My inner, and much less influential human being, hates it a lot AF.

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        6 months ago

        Even in the CS world, ordinal phrases are still 1-indexed (e.g. the first element of an array vs element 0).

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      But in the US way, you’re only one floor from the ground on the first floor. 0 isn’t a floor, it’s literally the ground we put the first floor on.