If you go into a lift or an elevator in different countries you will find that the ground floor is sometimes 0 and sometimes 1.
Quite often floor zero is marked G for Ground floor. It is also different if people are counting floors or if they are counting living spaces or levels and of course if there are cellars involved. Sometimes the cellars are half way down and sometimes there are several levels of cellars. So do you number the cellar 0 or _1? If you have several levels of cellars it is probably more natural to number the first level of cellars _1 So the index origin in elevators is probably dependent mostly if you are counting levels or floors. I remember a story told about how people were scared in the years before BC because they were living in years _1, _2, _3.... etc and they were afraid what would happen year 0 and following years or if there would be any. 2010/7/24 Don Guinn <[email protected]>: > Isn't the floor above the ground floor numbered "1" or "first" in Great > Britain? -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: [email protected] gsm: +3546985532 sími: +3544781286 http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
