Where is the first floor?

[dan958]

Pic or didn't eat it.

Unfortuntely, the garage near my work doesnt sell real Mars bars. this was the closest they did, but it tasted exactly the same.

 

[MikeTheNative]

Unfortuntely, the garage near my work doesnt sell real Mars bars. this was the closest they did, but it tasted exactly the same.

Mister Choc????? .. Some people really are just disgusting.

 

[dan958]

Mister Choc????? .. Some people really are just disgusting.

I've never heard of it either, but he's probably a lovely man

 

[Raymond Lin]

How many cars are there?



2 again?

That's 3.

But your turn now answering my logic?

It's funny how if you are sky diving, you hit the ground, not the first floor.

If you jump off a building, you hit the ground, not the first floor .

If you jump off outside the window from the first floor, you hit the ground.

If you jump off a floor inside the building, you hit the first floor?

WHAT ON EARTH? What kind of logic is that? You are on the first floor just because you step inside a door?

HSBC in Hong Kong has no door as such on the ground floor, the entire ground floor is wide open. Just because you are inside the footprint of the building means you are now on the 1st floor? What if I am 1 foot in it, 1 foot outside? Am I both on the ground and 1st floor?

 

[Dis86]

I like the folk in here who can't tell the difference between the number of floors and the number of storeys...

In terms of maths;

number of floors = number of storeys - 1

 

[Efour]

Are you American, Chinese or Russian Gilly cos otherwise i have no idea how a Brit could argue for the 1,2,3 rather than the G,1,2

 

[Mr Badger]

Isn't the mantle below the ground ?

Not yet - AMD still have high hopes for it.

 

[LOAM]

Is our Sketchup friend Sang, really stood on the second stair? I guess he must be according to some people here



And yes I did just render that

 

[glenimp617]

Are you American, American Wannabe, Chinese or Russian Gilly cos otherwise i have no idea how a Brit could argue for the 1,2,3 rather than the G,1,2

Fixed

 

[Lysander]

It's funny how if you are sky diving, you hit the ground, not the first floor.

If you jump off a building, you hit the ground, not the first floor .

If you jump off outside the window from the first floor, you hit the ground.

If you jump off a floor inside the building, you hit the first floor?

WHAT ON EARTH? What kind of logic is that? You are on the first floor just because you step inside a door?

HSBC in Hong Kong has no door as such on the ground floor, the entire ground floor is wide open. Just because you are inside the footprint of the building means you are now on the 1st floor? What if I am 1 foot in it? Am I both on the ground and 1st floor?

Indeed. A door and walls do not created floors. Floors do.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

You could climb the building and go in through the window but I do believe that's what the stairs and the lift are designed for!

 

[Judgeneo]

Zero is pretty complex, some light reading about it can me found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_(disambiguation)

Technically, we should count from zero. There are zero mars bars, there is 1 mars bar etc..

Zero is also used as a neutral number, it could be argued that the British ground floor convention has arrisen from this.

But really, you just need to look at the simple logic of Raymonds post

It's funny how if you are sky diving, you hit the ground, not the first floor.

If you jump off a building, you hit the ground, not the first floor .

If you jump off outside the window from the first floor, you hit the ground.

If you jump off a floor inside the building, you hit the first floor?

WHAT ON EARTH? What kind of logic is that? You are on the first floor just because you step inside a door?

HSBC in Hong Kong has no door as such on the ground floor, the entire ground floor is wide open. Just because you are inside the footprint of the building means you are now on the 1st floor? What if I am 1 foot in it? Am I both on the ground and 1st floor?

 

[glenimp617]

Is our Sketchup friend Sang, really stood on the second stair? I guess he must be according to some people here



And yes I did just render that

No, he's on the 1st step. If he stood back he would be on the 1st floor though

 

[Jeps]

You start at 0. Up 1 is 1, down one is -1. It doesn't get more logical then that.

Starting at 1 doesn't make any sense at all. In order to have 1 you have to have gained something. That's why when you are born, you aren't 1 years old immediately.

 

[Judgeneo]

Indeed. A door and walls do not created floors. Floors do.

What do you call a building with no floors?

 

[LOAM]

He cant be though because apparently when you are elevated one "rise" you are on the second.

 

[Theophany]

What do you call a building with no floors?

That sounds rather philosophical...

 

[glenimp617]

You start at 0. Up 1 is 1, down one is -1. It doesn't get more logical then that.

Starting at 1 doesn't make any sense at all. In order to have 1 you have to have gained something. That's why when you are born, you aren't 1 years old immediately.

Yes and no

I agree with the being born part

However......by walking into the building you have by default gained something. You have entered the building, 1st floor

walk out of the building, 0 - you are not on any of the buildings floors

 

[robgmun]

What do you call a building with no floors?

A sinkhole?

 

[Lysander]

What do you call a building with no floors?

It would still be a building, it would have no floors.

If you had a building which was secured in an antigravity chamber, it could have no floors. You would just walk in the door into nothing.