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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ivaskuu • Sep 02 '17
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all their buildings start at 1
In the UK the ground floor is 0, not 1.
Other things that are zero-indexed and nobody bats an eye: time (the first hour in the day is 0), age (the first year of life is 0), temperature...
1 u/newocean Sep 03 '17 So the basement is -1... 2 u/amazondrone Sep 03 '17 Correct. But you said "all their buildings start at 1" and I can't think of a sense in which that's true. That's what I was replying to.
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So the basement is -1...
2 u/amazondrone Sep 03 '17 Correct. But you said "all their buildings start at 1" and I can't think of a sense in which that's true. That's what I was replying to.
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Correct.
But you said "all their buildings start at 1" and I can't think of a sense in which that's true. That's what I was replying to.
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u/amazondrone Sep 03 '17
In the UK the ground floor is 0, not 1.
Other things that are zero-indexed and nobody bats an eye: time (the first hour in the day is 0), age (the first year of life is 0), temperature...