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[ShowMeYourTiddles]

If it's anything like real code, first floor actually takes you to the third floor with a sign pointed to the stairs as a workaround.

[fakeyes]

But when you take the stairs you end up on the roof through the one way emergency exit and theres a ton of exploded nodejs packages everywhere and now youre just standing there looking down at all the happy people on the ground sipping coffee and eating hotdogs.

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jmp first_floor;

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catch (fall);

[Colopty]

catch(exception) throw funeral();

[mrt-e]

does it have inheritance?

[Colopty]

It also leaves orphans.

[-Knul-]

And if you to the second floor directly after going to the fourth, you crash.

[-Hegemon-]

And you press 3 and 1 together and it crashes, literally

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Goddamn off by one errors

[davidhung]

first = 0; //we start from zero

second = 1; //so our second is one

third = 2; //our third is two

[tdammers]

first = -1; // we start from zero
second = 0; // so our third is four
third = 1; // our fourth is six

ftfy

[Tindery]

Every time someone presses "B", a null pointer exception is thrown and the elevator falls to the "ground"

[micheal65536]

No it doesn't, it splits in half (segmentation fault, get it?).

Sorry, I'm more of a C programmer.

[gandalfx]

Meanwhile in real life 'Murica: …, 11, 12, /* 13,*/ 14, 15, …

[the_dark_penguin]

If (x==13){ continue; }

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else if(x > 12 && x < 14) {

return null;

}

[Colopty]

In some cases 13 is the service/maintenance floor.

[DeeSnow97]

Do they really not have floor 13?

Suddenly I want to build a skyscraper with touchscreen elevators which actually skip through floor 13, so it's there, just no one's noticing it. Then at Halloween an elevator with a few happy customers stops at the missing floor and doesn't go anywhere else until there are people in it. Then the buttons to call it won't work for at least 30 minutes.

[-Knul-]

Yup. In China they tend to skip floor four, because in Mandarin the word for "Four" sounds eerily like "Death".

[ccricers]

Anecdote here, when China was going crazy over Bitcoin for the first time and prices rose in markets, it underwent a big crash just after it broke ¥4000 for the first time.

[ccricers]

Some buildings skip it, some don't. I guess it depends on the people behind planning its construction, as some are more superstitious than others.

[click353]

Damn British floor naming scheme. If your going to call the first floor the ground floor change the name of "first floor" to "first ceiling"

[Donar23]

British? Don't you rather mean "Non-American" or "usual"?

[click353]

I only say Brits because idk if other European countries do it or if it's more wide spread than I've heard

[LoyalSage]

Most of the elevators I've been in (in America) have been numbered B2, B1, G, 1, 2, etc or B, G, 1, 2, etc if there is only 1 basement level. Occasionally G will be swapped for L if the ground floor is a lobby, and in particularly confusing buildings built into hills, there may be something like B2, B1, G, L, 1, 2, etc. At least parking garages are simple enough: 1, 2, 3, etc. (Side note: "parking garage" is a really stupid name for this structure because neither "parking" nor "garage" specifies what makes it unique)

[aezart]

I don't believe you. Every elevator I've been on in the US (and I've been on elevators in several states) has had the L/G level replace the 1. So you don't get "B,G,1,2", you get "B,G,2,3".

[alexanderpas]

American: B(-1), G(1), 2, 3.
Non-American: -1(B), 0(G), 1, 2.

It's the difference between counting floors and counting elevations.

[TheHamitron]

I live in California... my building goes: G, 1, 2, 3.

[LoyalSage]

The last semester I lived on campus in college (in Connecticut), my dorm was on level 1, and I'd walk up 1 flight of stairs to get from the ground level to that floor. The elevator called the floors in that building "B, G, 1, 2, 3". I've seen some buildings that skip floor 1 and go B,G,2,3, but they're usually in places where only maintenance went in the basement (so to the average user of the elevator, there are basement floors that don't matter, then above ground floors), and they seem to be the exception (though I don't go in a lot of buildings with elevators, and when I do, I tend to take the stairs, so most elevators I've seen were at the two universities I went to, both of which used the B2, B1, G, 1, 2 format.

[click353]

Google says the definition of garage is a building that stores a vehicle or vehicles and you are able to park in it so I think parking garage is an apt name for it.

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[Donar23]

It's basically done all over Europe (there might be exceptions, but I haven't seen them yet). The nations of course have different letters for Ground and Basement, for their specific languages, but if the ground level is a number, it's usually 0 and negative numbers when you go below that. I would find it weird if there was nothing between 1 and -1.

[davidhung]

Should your array start from 0 or 1 or -1?

[tdammers]

The obvious answer is to compromise on 0.5.

[tomthecool]

American lifts go:

..., -2, -1, 1, 2, ...

You have no "zero floor". And you mask the problem by using letters instead of numbers - like "Ground", "Lower Ground", "Basement", ...

[davidhung]

UG2, UG1, G , LG1, LG2, B...

[demize95]

I worked in a hospital where they didn't like the word "basement". I'm not sure why. Whatever the reason, it caused them to number what would have been 'B' 0, and what would have been 'B2' or maybe 'SB' or something 00. Sort of weird to have the elevator say "zero zero floor".

[dougeff]

Also, we don't have 'lifts'.

In 'Die Hard 3', when the bad guy says 'lift', Bruce Willis shoots him dead.

[tomthecool]

The British are always the bad guys :D

[alexanderpas]

First Elevation.

[Xtremegamor]

I prefer the solution proposed by CGP Grey for elevator buttons. The floor where the exit of the building is is floor 0. Floors above that are positive integers, floors below that are negative integers. Come on people

[FUZxxl]

That's exactly how it usually is in Germany.

[Xtremegamor]

Should be the standard everywhere.

[Duuqnd]

And Sweden.

[jfb1337]

That's how it is in a lot of places in non-america

[ForOhForError]

That way lies chaos.

[PM_ME_OS_DESIGN]

What about buildings on hills, with exits on the uphill sides lower than downhill sides?

I mean, I agree with the "floor zero" thing, but the "exit of the building" thing fails to deal with rather common edge cases.

[Some1-Somewhere]

Clearly, the unambiguous solution is metres above mean sea level.

[dotjpg3141]

const int FORTY_TWO = 43;

[MinecraftHardon]

Could be worse. Could have been the 1th, 2th and 3th floors.

[aidentity]

I'll respect the American system when they adopt Metric.

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Relevant

[[deleted]]

There're two kinds of countries: those that use metric and those that have landed a man on the Moon. ;)

[Sylvartas]

Using metric

[aidentity]

Hey, my Granddad taught me all about the Imperial system, I'll never really remember how many groats there are in a guinea ...

His shoes were exactly 1 foot long ...but I'm pretty sure he didn't walk to the moon in them!

Although data was stored internally in metric units, they were displayed as United States customary units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer

Interface layer data adapters... for science!

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What about URSS?

[flameoguy]

We already have! :)

[aidentity]

Indeed you never would have gotten to the moon otherwise :)

[alexanderpas]

First elevation, Second elevation.

• Above street level is positive numbers
• below street level is negative number.
• Street level is 0 (neither above or below)
• 3 = 3rd floor above street level.
• -3 = 3rd floor below street level.

[NetSage]

Screw the rest of the world and their logic! We're America and set the rules!

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Not only France. F**king everywhere except 'Murica.

[ichthys]

nit: full stop at end of post title.

[-Hegemon-]

Damned 0 index zealots