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Indivara wrote: The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
As does any modern hospital. I was wondering why there was a sudden need of a character-prefix.
Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
Indivara wrote: My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
It is not a point of from "where" to start counting, as to count "what is". Youngest is right.
Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
An alternate dimension.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Or the crematorium?? But then that is an alternate dimension!!
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Actually you'd enter the 'Twilight Zone'.
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The cellars? Much more gothic than the basements.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
The Coffee machines, of course.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It gets worse actually
Mezzanine is M.
Roof is R or RF.
Basement is B or BF when only one level is underground.
Platform is P, except when it is Parking.
Sometimes the car park floors are closer together and get separate numbers P1 onwards, which correspond to different floor numbers of the building.
And sometimes they are labelled in Japanese, making a ride on the elevator more adventurous. 
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Too confusing, I'll be taking the stairs.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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Indivara wrote: Platform is P, except when it is Parking.
Or Penthouse.
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Agreed. I think some folk are confusing counting floors, with counting ceilings
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
What about "terrace" buildings that are built on the side of a hill, having more than one ground level floor?
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: having more than one ground level floor?
Go to the top of the building. Jump. Count ground floors on impact.
One impact, one ground floor.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
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a floor is a floor. A floor is the walking surface of a room or vehicle.
if you have 2 floors is your list, I mean building!
How many items in your Building?
2 floors.
And so the first floor in your building is the [0] item, no, i mean [0] floor.
As such it is Ground Floor.
And the 2nd item in your building is the 1st Floor.
See, simple.
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Indivara wrote: No it is the first floor!
Elder one is a data scientist.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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In past lives, one was a C programmer, the other was a Fortran programmer. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I think I have spotted the problem here. The elder programs in Excel while the younger programs in C#
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The problem is that many people associate the word "first" with the number "one" and think that the two concepts are the same when they are not, they are distinct concepts.
In your children's case; I suspect that both are correct.
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He has clearly developed a healthy disdain for VB (but probably doesn't know it yet.) 
Marc
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It gets weirder: Some countries have different way to count floors. In Russia, the ground floor is the first floor. So a building with 3 floors has floors 1 to 3. In Germany, the ground floor is called the ground floor and the second floor is called the first floor. So a three-floor building would have floors 0 (ground) to 2. At least, there's a word for "above-ground floor" which I use.
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Useful, as it answers the real question: how many flights of stairs I have to climb? 0, 1, 2.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It should be obvious - Array index (in most of the cases) starts normally from 0. That explain a lot!
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I don't think this is about floors, look at the title again.
And, yes of course, you can not learn coding unless you were born programmer.
Zero floor approach is a good sign, the younger kid is the one of us!
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In Italy gorund floor is 0, then there are first, second and so on.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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All y'all saying that ground floor = 0 are correct.
All y'all saying that ground floor = first are also correct.
It's just that in many countries, floors are identified by an index (0) whereas in the US (and a few other places I surmise) floors are identified with a label ("first").
Different UI concerns, that.
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