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kelnos on Jan 28, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [g...

I believe they call the zeroth floor the "ground floor".

mst on Jan 30, 2024 [–]

Yep, Ground, 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.

Which I would argue is close enough for me to consider it zero-based.

Elevators in the UK mostly have G rather than 0 on the buttons so far as I can remember though; I've completely forgotten what mainland Europe does.

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