Where is the first floor?

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dan958 said:
This is almost as bad as when someone says 'Next Wednesday' when it's Tuesday, but means the week after the next Wednesday.
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I use this terminology but now you've got me thinking about it there is no set rule and depends on context.

I was going to argue it means 'next after the following' but then I realised that if I said it on a Thursday I would mean the upcoming Wednesday, 5 days later. Then I thought it was just a silent 'week' being omitted, so you mean you'll do it in the next week on the day stated which gets me around the problem above, but then if I said "I'll do it Next Monday" on a Saturday I'd mean a week after the upcoming Monday.

I guess when I say "Next [insert day name]" I mean add on 6 days and the first that appears after that is the one I mean :p
 
I really am amazed at the laziness of some people using lifts.
Every time I get in a lift at work I've usually got to go from LG2 to Floor 3 which is a total of 5 floors but the amount of staff who travel 1 floor is unbelievable.
 
Lol hilarious thread guys - thanks!:)

Different places do it different ways. The end. There is some logic to either system. Does anyone seriously think they are going to successfully argue that one way is absolutely correct and the other wrong? Siiiiiigh.

Personally I prefer the US system and a few people have hinted on why - floor numbering is not a measure of elevation from the ground - not a strict number scale extending positive and negative either side of zero. Therefore it doesn't really have to have a zero for ground level to make sense. Floor numbering is just labels for discrete areas. Typically when we label things with numbers we start at 1 (buildings are not a mathematical array, lol). So the US system makes perfect logical sense to me. I dare say the sensible Norwegians over here thought the same when adopting the US system and left the crazy Swedes to the UK system :). I wouldn't bother trying to argue the UK system is wrong or illogical, though.
 
The Running Man said:
What happens if the building has a subtaranian entrance?
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I made this point earlier, if you enter the parking in the basement level and take a flight of stairs up this should at all affect the numbering of the floor yet using some people's logic if you entered from the street or the basement parking you would have give the floor a different number because you went up a different number of stairs. Madness.
 
D.P. said:
I made this point earlier, if you enter the parking in the basement level and take a flight of stairs up this should at all affect the numbering of the floor yet using some people's logic if you entered from the street or the basement parking you would have give the floor a different number because you went up a different number of stairs. Madness.
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The ground is constant, just where the street outside is.

How is that confusing?

If you enter at basement level then that's call the basement level.

How is that confusing?

The mere act of walking through nothing but a door all of the sudden you changed from ground to 1st floor is confusing.

That is madness.
 
Liampope said:
Typically when we label things with numbers we start at 1 (buildings are not a mathematical array, lol).
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Why do room numbers in buildings (e.g. hotel rooms) not start at 2 then?

Surely if they were to follow the same logic, the hallway would be room number 1? ;)

You can stick to your silly numbering systems if you want, but please, at least have some consistency!
 
When I read the first page of this thread then saw there were 12 more (yes that's right, I use the default!) I just knew this was what I would find when I skipped to the last page.
 
Haggisman said:
Why do room numbers in buildings (e.g. hotel rooms) not start at 2 then?

Surely if they were to follow the same logic, the hallway would be room number 1? ;)

You can stick to your silly numbering systems if you want, but please, at least have some consistency!
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You've lost me there, I'm afraid :).

Maybe I missed it, but hey - has anyone mentioned mezzanine floors? Where do they fit in? OMG I just exploded my own head.
 
Liampope said:
You've lost me there, I'm afraid :).

Maybe I missed it, but hey - has anyone mentioned mezzanine floors? Where do they fit in? OMG I just exploded my own head.
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If you go into a hotel, there's always a room 1, but surely room number 1 should actually be the hallway?
 
estebanrey said:
I use this terminology but now you've got me thinking about it there is no set rule and depends on context.

I was going to argue it means 'next after the following' but then I realised that if I said it on a Thursday I would mean the upcoming Wednesday, 5 days later. Then I thought it was just a silent 'week' being omitted, so you mean you'll do it in the next week on the day stated which gets me around the problem above, but then if I said "I'll do it Next Monday" on a Saturday I'd mean a week after the upcoming Monday.

I guess when I say "Next [insert day name]" I mean add on 6 days and the first that appears after that is the one I mean :p
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I do that as well. If a day falls later in the same week I refer to it as "this" so Thursday coming would be "this Thursday", if I said "next Thursday" I'd be referring to the one next week.
 
Haggisman said:
If you go into a hotel, there's always a room 1, but surely room number 1 should actually be the hallway?
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Not always. If the ground floor just contains the lobby, bar, restaurant etc then the first room would be 101 on the first floor. The first number of a hotel room usually indicates the floor.
 
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