Born programmer?
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
I have this problem in the US where they seem to think the ground floor is the first floor and the first floor is the second floor, etc. Weird. It doesn't seem to matter how many times I try to correct them, they still keep getting it wrong!
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I have this problem in the US where they seem to think the ground floor is the first floor and the first floor is the second floor, etc. Weird. It doesn't seem to matter how many times I try to correct them, they still keep getting it wrong!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
It's probably the imperial system - it rots the brain you know! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
0 is ground level. A floor is above ground level, and anything else is wrong. If 1 was ground floor, 0 would be in the ground. Then it would stop making sense to even count negative.
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0 is ground level. A floor is above ground level, and anything else is wrong. If 1 was ground floor, 0 would be in the ground. Then it would stop making sense to even count negative.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
Over here the floor at ground level is the first floor. It does make sense in a way, since the highest floor has a number equal to the total number of floors. The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards. My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
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Over here the floor at ground level is the first floor. It does make sense in a way, since the highest floor has a number equal to the total number of floors. The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards. My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
Indivara wrote:
The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
As does any modern hospital. I was wondering why there was a sudden need of a character-prefix. Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
Indivara wrote:
My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
It is not a point of from "where" to start counting, as to count "what is". Youngest is right. Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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Indivara wrote:
The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
As does any modern hospital. I was wondering why there was a sudden need of a character-prefix. Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
Indivara wrote:
My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
It is not a point of from "where" to start counting, as to count "what is". Youngest is right. Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
An alternate dimension.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
Indivara wrote:
No it is the first floor!
Elder one is a data scientist.
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
In past lives, one was a C programmer, the other was a Fortran programmer. :)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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Indivara wrote:
The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
As does any modern hospital. I was wondering why there was a sudden need of a character-prefix. Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
Indivara wrote:
My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
It is not a point of from "where" to start counting, as to count "what is". Youngest is right. Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
The Coffee machines, of course.
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
I think I have spotted the problem here. The elder programs in Excel while the younger programs in C# :D
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Indivara wrote:
The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
As does any modern hospital. I was wondering why there was a sudden need of a character-prefix. Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
Indivara wrote:
My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
It is not a point of from "where" to start counting, as to count "what is". Youngest is right. Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
The problem is that many people associate the word "first" with the number "one" and think that the two concepts are the same when they are not, they are distinct concepts. In your children's case; I suspect that both are correct.
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Indivara wrote:
The ones below the ground are B1, B2 etc, increasing downwards.
As does any modern hospital. I was wondering why there was a sudden need of a character-prefix. Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
Indivara wrote:
My point was that kids don't usually count from zero (unless they were C programmers in a previous incarnation?)
It is not a point of from "where" to start counting, as to count "what is". Youngest is right. Go stand outside. That's 0 floors. You are at "level 0". Yes, build a floor, we'll call that one. Dig, and we'll call it -1. The latter is counting, but the first is merely a statement of what is if you go outside - 0 floors!
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
It gets worse actually Mezzanine is M. Roof is R or RF. Basement is B or BF when only one level is underground. Platform is P, except when it is Parking. Sometimes the car park floors are closer together and get separate numbers P1 onwards, which correspond to different floor numbers of the building. And sometimes they are labelled in Japanese, making a ride on the elevator more adventurous. :D
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
He has clearly developed a healthy disdain for VB (but probably doesn't know it yet.) ;) Marc
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
It gets weirder: Some countries have different way to count floors. In Russia, the ground floor is the first floor. So a building with 3 floors has floors 1 to 3. In Germany, the ground floor is called the ground floor and the second floor is called the first floor. So a three-floor building would have floors 0 (ground) to 2. At least, there's a word for "above-ground floor" which I use.
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It's probably the imperial system - it rots the brain you know! :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Where do the buttons prefixed with C lead to?
An alternate dimension.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Overheard today (kids talking in the back seat) Elder: What number is the lowest floor in the building? (referring to place we just left) Younger: Zeroth floor Elder: No it is the first floor! Younger: No, zeroth floor! (this goes on for some time) Younger is 5. :)
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0 is ground level. A floor is above ground level, and anything else is wrong. If 1 was ground floor, 0 would be in the ground. Then it would stop making sense to even count negative.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
a floor is a floor. A floor is the walking surface of a room or vehicle. if you have 2 floors is your list, I mean building! How many items in your Building? 2 floors. And so the first floor in your building is the [0] item, no, i mean [0] floor. As such it is Ground Floor. And the 2nd item in your building is the 1st Floor. See, simple.
