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xibalba89 at 2024-02-14 12:28:06+00:00 ID:
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Yes, because it makes lots of sense to say "I'm on the first floor of a 3-story building" when you mean the second floor. (That's how ordinal numbers work - we start with first, not zeroth.)
SimonGray at 2024-02-14 12:48:59+00:00 ID:
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Kinda silly to start a discussion based on my silly comment, but now that you did...
In a world where no underground floors exist, I guess counting from 1 can make sense, that part's true... but since we do tend to have floors underground, I find it a lot more logical to think of floors as a scale around 0. Otherwise you would either have to number the 1st basement floor 0 or skip 2 floors between the ground floor and the basement.
xibalba89 at 2024-02-14 12:50:21+00:00 ID:
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Basement floors are 0 in the States.
SimonGray at 2024-02-14 12:53:10+00:00 ID:
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My point exactly. That is nonsensical.
xibalba89 at 2024-02-14 12:55:20+00:00 ID:
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Why? They're underground, and NOT the norm.