Where is the first floor?

[Gilly]

But at what point are you 1, when do you get the Postman Pat card, what day is that ?

1st anniversary of your birth day

 

[Theophany]

Again, zero is not nothing. Zero is zero, its a valid number. Nothing would be null, which reprisents an absence of anything.

 

[nst68]

If there's a shop on each of the first two floors and they each make a sandwich using two slices of bread and cut them in half, does the number of sandwiches vary depending on the floor?

 

[Gilly]

So... which one of those options is this thread?

 

[Vulcan]

Are you 1 year old on the day you are born?.

No. Same way you start counting at 0 if you can fraction out the item you count.

But you already have a floor, a whole floor, 1.

A child gains time, but a building already has a floor to start with.

 

[Gilly]

No. Same way you start counting at 0 if you can fraction out the item you count.

But you already have a floor, a whole floor, 1.

No, I get LOAM's point now.

He's saying that when they start building the 1st floor, they have no floors but they have the ground. Once they've completed their first floor, that's like your 1st birthday

 

[glenimp617]

Bank Manager: "Glen, I'm sorry to inform you of this, but there's zero money in your account"

Glen: "That's great News! I thought I was skint"

 

[Lysander]

Bank Manager: "Glen, I'm sorry to inform you of this, but there's zero money in your account"

Glen: "That's great News! I thought I was skint"

It's not the same thing though.

No money is nothing. The ground floor is something. The same rules do not apply.

 

[LOAM]

No. Same way you start counting at 0 if you can fraction out the item you count.

But you already have a floor, a whole floor, 1.

But your counting floors which is done in storey's, levels are done so by counting the transition needed to reach them in the same way that age is.

 

[Mr Badger]

Why would you gain an Apple, aka a floor, by merely walking through a door with no change in elevation?

I'm on the ground floor now and I've got an apple.

 

[gord]

A child gains time, but a building already has a floor to start with.

The ground floor.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

I'm insanely busy. Teaching chumps helps me concentrate on the less mundane and more complex tasks

There's a backhanded compliment or insult in there not sure which

 

[glenimp617]

It's not the same thing though.

No money is nothing. The ground floor is something. The same rules do not apply.

Correct

so something must be 1 not 0

 

[Mr Badger]

Bank Manager: "Glen, I'm sorry to inform you of this, but there's zero money in your account"

Glen: "That's great News! I thought I was skint"

Indeed. A zero balance is much better than having a massive overdraft.

 

[Jeps]

If we all walked into a hotel lobby and I took a grinder to the nice marble floor, I think we can all agree that we'd be standing on the ground floor.

 

[Skeeter]

There's a backhanded compliment or insult in there not sure which

Which ever one is the 1st....

 

[Lysander]

Correct

so something must be 1 not 0

Buildings are not binary.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Okay, let's put this to bed.


When you go from one floor to the next, you gain an elevation. Whether it is from 9th to 10th or whatever.

Ergo, the term to describe as floor is consistent with level changes.

When you go from the 9th to 10th floor, you gain 1 level change.

Then how is it possible by going from ground to 1 floor up result in the 2nd floor? The numbers should relate to the changes in levels, the Y axis. Not an indication of the X axis. The fact that you step through the door of a building is not a change in level. You are on the ground outside the building and you are still on the ground inside a building.

 

[glenimp617]

Indeed. A zero balance is much better than having a massive overdraft.

Quoted for Truth!!!!

and don't I know it

 

[Gilly]

If we all walked into a hotel lobby and I took a grinder to the nice marble floor, I think we can all agree that we'd be standing on the ground floor.

By what rationale?

I think you'd be on the nth floor of the local police building

Buildings are not binary.

Of course they are.

You are on the ground outside the building and you are still on the ground inside a building.

Well that's not true is it? Outside you are effectively on the ground - floor 0. In this scenario 0 is null. Absence of floor.

You enter a building and you no longer have a null entity to represent what you are stood on. Hence floor 1.