[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >You're wrong. In English, the ground floor is the first floor.
> >Only in Dutch you start counting at zero! :-)
>
> _You_ are wrong :-) AFAIK (English, German, Frenchm Dutch), only the English
> start counting at 1, the rest starts from 0...
>
> Eric
I don't mean to be a wiseguy or anything, but the English do start
counting at 0 (..., second basement, first basement, ground floor, first
floor, ...) Americans are the ones that start at 1 (..., second
basement, first basement, first floor, ...)
So if you see this story:
> ObMSX: In some old MSX Club Magazin was an article about controlling a LEGO
> elevator with the parallel port of the MSX. Controlling _1_ elevator is not
> very difficult - doing that with 2 or more with an intelligent 'delivering
> system' is more fun. I did it once (software only, not on MSX ;-)) for 3
> elevators, as an excersise in parallel programming... was fun...
They should indeed start at 1, since elevator is an American word. The
English word is lift ;-)
Bye,
shevek
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