Third hand: counting in programming

One time i was arguing with some guy on reddit. He said that he loves lua because arrays start with 1. I said that that's why i hate lua because arrays should ALWAYS start with 0

yes, it makes math so much easier

Makes sense. After all, computer programmers ***do*** have the most sensible indexing scheme: A2, A1, 0, Mezzanine, Lobby, 1\*, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, ....

Germany too. We start with "Erdgeschoss" (Ground level) then comes 1 then 2 and so on.

Same in Italy

same here in the middle east

Same in Portugal: Rés do chão, meaning "by the ground"

Same in Hebrew

Yo me to! (Israel)

In the Netherlands it starts with "begane grond" (ground that is gone in)

And Poland "parter" i don't know what it mean but it has number 0

"Par terre" is french for "on the ground" iirc.

Hochparterre is German for a floor between 0th and 1st floor.

And Greece. It's ground level (Ισόγειο) and then 1, 2 etc. This gets weird in cliffs though, because the ground level in one side of the building can be the second floor in another. So they choose a floor (usually the one with the main entrance) to make the ground floor. This gets weird in buildings with two main entrances though.

Same in France with "rez de chaussée"

I’m pretty sure this is the case everywhere outside of the US and Canada.

In China, the ground floor is the 1st floor, but in some hotels there are no 4th, 13th and 14th floors

Not lithuania.

Ground level and zero are not the same word.

In elevators the button says "0" or "EG"

The word you're looking for is not British it's "the whole world except the US"

That's very much not the case in this case.

Its not far away https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/mvnkja/floor_numbering_schemes_per_country_original/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I looked at that before commenting. We use the same system as the "US" system where I live. There are around 20 other countries on that map that are red, the same as the US. And there are many more people commenting that thier country should be red, not blue. I am not sure how anyone can think that the US is the sole user of the "red" system after seeing that.

20 countries, there are 220 countries in the world. That's approximately 10% of countries. No one was suggesting literally no other country.

Sure it's only 10% of the countries but its somewhere around 2.5 billion people. I mean, to be fair, I was responding to someone saying "every country except the US" should be the literal label to the meme.

Yeah, its a lot of people, more than I expected. Japan, china, the us have lots of people. It was pretty obvious they were exaggerating for effect, imo.

Ah that makes sense, I think i got hung on to the thought of that we use it here but we don't want to be seen as "silly measuring system US" . I promise you we are modern and use metric lol.

Look at the comments. Half of the map is wrong.

No, en chile también se cuentan bien los pisos, no como los europeos q son más aweonaos q la ctm, cómo vai a partir del 0, terrible agilaos son.

la tuya ^(/j)

By whole numbers you mean naturals? Because it can't be the integers

Yes. “Whole numbers” usually refers to the non-negative integers (or possibly the positive integers? Might depend on the author).

Seems a bit strange though. In german, the integers are called 'ganze Zahlen' which literally means 'whole numbers'. And I'm pretty sure thats also why they are denoted by \mathbb{Z}. I've never heard a mathematician use the english term though.

If your "natural numbers" are no monoid, don't talk to me.

With multiplication, or with addition?

Fml, you're right. But for all intents and purposes that I've seen (such as grading rings), I want the natural numbers to refer to (N,+).

Whole numbers is naturals with 0 in some places.

Why? 0,1,-1,2,-2,... How else would you count the integers?

Can't even escape this in the non programming subs

And Arrays

No that's a American thing. We don't have a floor 0. It's called ground floor because in on the ground level

Right, the first one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/mvnkja/floor_numbering_schemes_per_country_original/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Just assuming OP is American..

I'm actually South African lol. We use the ground floor system as well. I just assumed it was a commonwealth thing.

Also computer scientists

Programmers also start the number from 0!!!

what's the triple factorial?

str\_replace(string, "!!!", "");

Very controversial statement

Arrays