On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:09:59AM +0100, adrian15 wrote: > >On Wednesday 13 December 2006 09:59, adrian15 wrote: > >>> For them their first hard disk (Who is going to have a zero-hard disk in > >>> the real world. It has no sense) is C:, but you could name it 1. > >>> And when they partition their hard disk they suppose that the first cut > >>> it is the 1 not the 0. > > > >And you could name it 0. > > This is in computing world... but if you go to a building you go to the > ground floor or to the 1st floor but you not do go to the 0th floor! That's a pretty interesting example. In US and Japan ground floor is 1st floor while in *some* other countries (such as France) ground floor is 0th floor. I concluded that some conventions are not universal and one have to choose one.
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