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Our elevators are 0 indexed. LOL that would only be really funny for programmers though.

• gus_massa 10y ago
  In many countries, the floors are 0 indexed. I live in Argentina an the usual name for the floor that is at the street level is "Plata Baja" (something like "low floor") and the elevator has usually a button that says "PB". Now it's increasingly common to see a "0" in that button :) . (This makes me slightly happy as a mathematician.) Moreover, in some places the first underground floor "primer subsuelo" is "-1". (I've never seen a "1/2" for "entrepisos" :( . I don't know the translation, with autotranslation I get "mezzanine" and "intermediate floor".) Some images: http://www.ascensoreseguren.com/cabinas-y-decoraciones/accesibilidad-y-seguridad.html http://www.ascensoreseguren.com/cabinas-y-decoraciones/acces... http://www.thinkstockphotos.es/image/foto-de-stock-forefinger-pressing-the-zero-floor-button-in/497420412 http://www.thinkstockphotos.es/image/foto-de-stock-forefinge...
  • maxaf 10y ago
    Oh, bother! I totally forgot that when I lived in Israel, floors in my apartment building were numbered the same as in Argentina. :)
  • reubenmorais 10y ago
    Mezzanine is what you were looking for, by the way.
• PakG1 10y ago
  Look at how many elevators have the ground floor as G, and then the second floor is 1. It already happens a lot in lots of places in the world. Of course, it levels out if the building excludes unlucky numbers, like 13 in North America or 4 in China.