ound floor is the first floor. Only
in Dutch you start counting at zero! :-)
At Spain we start also by the ground floor, and also there are
sometimes the 'principal' or the 'entresuelo', sometimes even
both, and then the first floor and...
...and, and what the heck! What's this??? X-D
A MSX Ma
by a common "misunderstanding" that counting starts at 1. I
think that counting from 0 is much nicer and also more practical.
Let me give some other examples:
You want to calculate the memory address of an array element. If your array
has index range [1..N], the memory address of an ele
You're wrong. In English, the ground floor is the first floor.
Only in Dutch you start counting at zero! :-)
_You_ are wrong :-) AFAIK (English, German, Frenchm Dutch), only the English
start counting at 1, the rest starts from 0...
Eric
ObMSX: In some old MSX Club Magazin
In English, the ground floor is the first floor. Only
in Dutch you start counting at zero! :-)
At Spain we start also by the ground floor, and also there are
sometimes the 'principal' or the 'entresuelo', sometimes even
both, and then the first floor and...
...and, and what the heck! What's this?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You're wrong. In English, the ground floor is the first floor.
Only in Dutch you start counting at zero! :-)
_You_ are wrong :-) AFAIK (English, German, Frenchm Dutch), only the English
start counting at 1, the rest starts from 0...
Eric
I don't mean
as I know, there
are many countries where the counting starts at 1. So, the entrance is at the
firts floor one and the floor above is called the second floor.
Starting to count at one is more natural for most people. The concept of zero
and negative numbers is something which is much more difficult to gras
you start counting at zero! :-)
Jasper.
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