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Quick complement. Where I’m from (Portugal) we use the literal number 0 for the ground floor.
by joaonmatos 4y ago
Quick complement. Where I’m from (Portugal) we use the literal number 0 for the ground floor.
- avereveard 4y agoIn Europe is common for elevator to use zero for ground, even if language/culture has a specific name for it (piano terra/piano rialzato here)
- fjkdlsjflkds 4y agoActually, "rés-do-chão" would be the more common term. Still... in Portugal, the "first floor" is implicitly never the ground floor (but the floor above it), so 0-based indexing is respected (as you suggest).
- joaonmatos 4y agoOn elevators you don’t see “R/C” unless the elevator is very old, and the same for office building directories or shopping centres. In almost all cases it’s the number zero. OTOH, in countries like Germany you will see the “E” for Erdgeschoss everywhere.