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If this was a taller building, the terms would match up once the Americans skip referencing a 13th floor

I live under the British system (Australia) of floor naming.

So annoying.

I wish it was this clear cut in the states. Motherfucking builders treat this like guidelines and I'm never sure what button I need to press to be able to walk outside.

do Brits skip 13?

The benefit of starting the number at 1 is the majority of apartment blocks and hotels can have 4 digit room numbers with the first digit representing the floor it's on.

E.g. room 4201 is on 4th floor and 1691 is on 1st floor

The Americans might be right on this one. Perhaps if we give them this one they will give us the metric system.

Where are the stairs going in that picture? They just make everything more confusing. They seem to go exactly between two levels and not on the bottom level like a normal-ass building.

Same thing in Spain

This makes pointer arithmetic much easier, but pointing arithmetic much harder.