The one where it says 0 on the elevator?
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 months agoOther countries treat the question more as “how many floors from the ground are you?” than what you’re used to. After all, what floor is 0?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Anamnesis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But I’m the US way, you’re only one floor from the ground on the first floor. 0 isn’t a floor, it’s literally the ground we put the first floor on.
stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My inner computer scientist likes this framing, and understands its logic. My inner, and much less influential human being, hates it a lot AF.
yoevli@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Even in the CS world, ordinal phrases are still 1-indexed (e.g. the first element of an array vs element 0).
JDubbleu@programming.dev 2 months ago
It’s actually pretty common to say 0th index, but it depends a lot on context.
yoevli@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sure, but that only applies when referring to indices or to the zeroth element specifically.