On 17 Jan 2014, at 18:42, Daniel R. Tobias <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15 Jan 2014 at 12:58, Richard Clark wrote: > >> When you enter a building on ground level and you go to a room on the >> 1st floor do you expect to use the stairs or elevator? The answer depends >> on wheather you are in Europe or the US (or on the campus of the University >> of Arizona). > > One building at Carnegie Mellon University has a main, ground-level > entrance which puts you on the fifth floor. I don't know if it's still true, but when I went for an interview at Leeds University thirty years ago, they had a system of numbering the floors from the lowest level on campus upwards, so the ground floor of the computer science department was 11th floor. ian _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
