That was one of the most confusing things when I lived in England. That and the stupid thing they do with baseball. I mean you get six points for a homerun? WTF?
Imma be real with u chief,,, this is one instance where the Americans make more sense
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Umm... Naah. That system makes more sense. You start from the ground and then go on to the other numbers.
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Spooky is correct. First floor is the the first floor because it's the first floor above the ground.
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But Americans won't understand because this is how Metric system works.
And I don't mean any disrespect. We have been raised in different systems and we each find that one convenient.
For the metric system using countries or I guess this is just a Commonwealth thing, this system is convenient. You are on ground, you start from ground, and then 1,2,3,etc.
Definition of zero: "In a positional number system, a place indicator meaning "no units of this multiple."" Definition of floor: "the lower surface of a room, on which one may walk." To have a 0 floor makes 0 sense.
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But its not a 0 floor. It's the ground floor. It's the floor that is on ground level.
Was referencing title which states, "Brits know that arrays start at zero." And if you want to call it "ground floor," fair enough, but it's still the first floor. The story above the "ground floor" is the second story or second floor.
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Ah ok. We call it the first floor because it's the first floor above the ground. I understand why over the pond they call it first floor though :)
It's "level zero" because that's the starting point. Count ordinal numbers; starting from ... (zero) ... then .. 1, 2, 3, ... etc. So 'ground floor', or 'level zero', is logical.
Apparently, Americans are not.
Computers start counting at 0. Also when you are measuring distance you start at 0. There's the start point of the measurement (the ground floor) and then the first floor up from that then the second, then the third, etc. personally the American system is what I'd use if asking what floor I'm on (cause I'm 'merican) but there is a logic to their system as well.
A few things:
1. Computers don’t start counting at zero. Address space with the value of zero comes before the value of one which is very different.
2. You don’t start measuring distance with zero any more than you count starting at zero.
3. Zero is not the lack of a number nor does it lack a mathematical value.
4. Guest is most definitely a robot spy.
Computers do start counting with zero. Saying that the first slot beint zero is different from starting counting with zero is literally saying the first number being zero instead of one isn't counting starting with zero.
Measuring does start with zero. All measuring devices i.e. Rulers etc start with zero and go to the to the inch etc away from the starting point.
Whether or not zero is the lack of a number depends on a lot including what language you are speaking and what context you are speaking it.
Ok, then I guess you are going to have to define what counting is when in reference to a computer.
Computers don’t treat 0 differently than any other value. It just happens to be between -1 and 1. The reasons indexes start at 0 nowadays is because of how address handling is done in programming languages since C was released. Before that languages like BASIC, Fortan, and Pascal all started their arrays at 1. It’s arbitrary.
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Pretty much the same shit
And I don't mean any disrespect. We have been raised in different systems and we each find that one convenient.
For the metric system using countries or I guess this is just a Commonwealth thing, this system is convenient. You are on ground, you start from ground, and then 1,2,3,etc.
Apparently, Americans are not.
1. Computers don’t start counting at zero. Address space with the value of zero comes before the value of one which is very different.
2. You don’t start measuring distance with zero any more than you count starting at zero.
3. Zero is not the lack of a number nor does it lack a mathematical value.
4. Guest is most definitely a robot spy.
Measuring does start with zero. All measuring devices i.e. Rulers etc start with zero and go to the to the inch etc away from the starting point.
Whether or not zero is the lack of a number depends on a lot including what language you are speaking and what context you are speaking it.
Computers don’t treat 0 differently than any other value. It just happens to be between -1 and 1. The reasons indexes start at 0 nowadays is because of how address handling is done in programming languages since C was released. Before that languages like BASIC, Fortan, and Pascal all started their arrays at 1. It’s arbitrary.