But would I have an apple?
Where is the first floor?
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But would I have an apple?
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This is how an office block would be laid out, and is how almost every decent building in London is laid out.
0
B
B1
B2
Is how residential buildings are usually laid out.
Just the way it is in the UK folks.
Oh and 0 is the ground floor and 1st is always above the ground/0 in the UK. The reason being you are on the "ground" and above that you are on floors.
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Two ways to look at this
measurement of scale
3
2
1
0
-1
-2
-3
and physically
Builders do the foundations, then put the floor down (number one)....then build the walls and lay the second floor
measurement of scale
3
2
1
0
-1
-2
-3
and physically
Builders do the foundations, then put the floor down (number one)....then build the walls and lay the second floor
Completely irrelevant. The discussion is related to floors of a building, not a ladder.
The ground floor of a building is a floor like any other floor. Your analogy is completely broken because the floor is not the ladder.
A better analogy Bob is on the 10th floor of the building, he walks up 2 flights of stairs He has visited 3 different floors on this trip (10th, 11th and 12th). The bottom floor of a building is a valid and equal floor like anything else
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New York obviously.
Yes, it is the floor on the ground, but it is a floor, the first floor.
If you're arguing that he's going to put his foot on the first step then we have already been over this.
He is transitioning from 1 thing (a floor) to another thing (a step) so of course it's the first step.
When you move from one floor to another, you don't call the second floor the first floor.
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^ agree
Whilst we all realise that, that doesn't mean it's the right or most logical way to do it.
I think there are some here that are free thinkers, and some too set in their ways.
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We've learn today that in America, zero do not exist.
Football matches start with a goal/touchdown each, and free Starbucks when you walk through a door.
Football matches start with a goal/touchdown each, and free Starbucks when you walk through a door.
Yes, you win the illogical cookie.
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sorry I've edited my post. I'm with you btw
Here is another example
There is a building with 10 floors, on each floor there is a set of challenges and an evil boss you have to fight. If you beat the challenges and boss then you get a million dollars and can take the elevator up a floor and start the next set of challenges.
Obviously with 10 floors there is 10 bosses and 10 million dollars up for grabs, because quietly logically you enter the first floor of the building and start the challenges and have to kill the first boss on floor floor 1.
You would be pretty upset to be told there is this 10 story building with a million dollars on each floor but to find out the first floor of the building was strangely empty and so after beating all bosses you only had 9 million bucks.
A florr is a floor, regardless of how you got there. You could fly through windows, parachute down an elevator shaft, teleport, be carried by firemen, lifted in by a crane, drive up a big ramp, get slung shot in, climb the outside of the building, abseil in form the top. It doesn't matter, a floor is a floor is a floor. In mathematics a single item has a quantity 1, the symbol 1 represent this quantity. Zero means there are not items, i.e. no floors.
Not really.
Zero exists, and we count from it because time can be fractioned. However most things come in wholes. You don't get 1/10th or 0.1 of a touchdown, you get 1 touchdown.
By what rationale?
I think you'd be on the nth floor of the local police building
Of course they are.
If you think of the ground floor as floor 0, you will be confused. The ground floor is the ground floor. It is G. The floor above is 1. Buildings do not conform to the binary rule.
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