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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So to preface this, it’s all arbitrary so there isn’t a right or wrong as long as it’s consistent.

The question might be better phrased this way: are we numbering distance or counting spaces?

If the year is 2024, what century is it? How about if the year is 700? How about if the year is "-700” (700 BCE)? Now which century is the zero century? 🤔 It doesn’t make sense to ask I don’t think.

So really the US System counts the spaces up, then the spaces down as stories. Ground is the same as 1, and Basement is same as -1. I have never ever seen a building (or elevator) with a number line in it or with negative numbers. NOW if you put altitude in the elevator in, say, 10ft increments or so, I would have no choice but to agree with your strange European ways.

No storey is special, no one is special.

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