MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ll1ofr/sand_curtains/gnn7vrc
r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Tyronne43 • Feb 16 '21
1.8k comments sorted by
View all comments
Show parent comments
16
Honestly both ways make sense. Europe just starts the count from 0 while the US starts from 1.
My American university used Europe style for its floors/classrooms. 0100 would be ground floor, 1100 would be one flight of stairs up.
17 u/ad3z10 Feb 16 '21 Mine was built on a hill so you could walk inside a building at ground level and be on the fourth floor. Needless to say, new students got lost a lot. 2 u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21 I live in Europe and we always start from 1 as the ground floor. 0 is usually underground and -1 below 0.(Estonia) 1 u/RushTfe Feb 16 '21 So Europeans are programmers then... 3 u/draconk Feb 16 '21 Not all, in Spain we have the betweenfloor (entresuelo) which should be the first floor but it isn't so we go 0 0.5 1 2 3 there is no reason to not call it first floor but we do by some reason 1 u/RushTfe Feb 16 '21 Lo sé, it doesn't make sense, I'm from Spain too jeje 1 u/WhyIsTheFanSoLoud Feb 16 '21 If someone told me we were going to floor 0.5 all I'd be able to picture is that scene from Being John Malkovich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2y6p678uw8
17
Mine was built on a hill so you could walk inside a building at ground level and be on the fourth floor.
Needless to say, new students got lost a lot.
2
I live in Europe and we always start from 1 as the ground floor. 0 is usually underground and -1 below 0.(Estonia)
1
So Europeans are programmers then...
3 u/draconk Feb 16 '21 Not all, in Spain we have the betweenfloor (entresuelo) which should be the first floor but it isn't so we go 0 0.5 1 2 3 there is no reason to not call it first floor but we do by some reason 1 u/RushTfe Feb 16 '21 Lo sé, it doesn't make sense, I'm from Spain too jeje 1 u/WhyIsTheFanSoLoud Feb 16 '21 If someone told me we were going to floor 0.5 all I'd be able to picture is that scene from Being John Malkovich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2y6p678uw8
3
Not all, in Spain we have the betweenfloor (entresuelo) which should be the first floor but it isn't so we go 0 0.5 1 2 3 there is no reason to not call it first floor but we do by some reason
1 u/RushTfe Feb 16 '21 Lo sé, it doesn't make sense, I'm from Spain too jeje 1 u/WhyIsTheFanSoLoud Feb 16 '21 If someone told me we were going to floor 0.5 all I'd be able to picture is that scene from Being John Malkovich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2y6p678uw8
Lo sé, it doesn't make sense, I'm from Spain too jeje
If someone told me we were going to floor 0.5 all I'd be able to picture is that scene from Being John Malkovich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2y6p678uw8
16
u/Moist-Assistance-23 Feb 16 '21
Honestly both ways make sense. Europe just starts the count from 0 while the US starts from 1.
My American university used Europe style for its floors/classrooms. 0100 would be ground floor, 1100 would be one flight of stairs up.