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   From: ithinkiam@gmail.com   
      
   J. P. Gilliver  wrote:   
   > On 2025/10/10 0:34:47, JJ wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:48:06 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>> On 2025/10/8 9:35:15, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Throw it out from the second or higher floor.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is that a UK second or a US second?>   
   >>   
   >> Wait, what? Aren't both the same?   
   >   
   > Not when it comes to floors (storeys)! In British English, the ground   
   > floor is called the ground floor, and the first floor is upstairs (with   
   > the second floor, if there is one, above that, and so on); in American   
   > English, the ground floor is the first floor, upstairs is the second   
   > floor, and so on.   
      
   dragging ourselves a little more on-topic; in computing terms this is the   
   difference between 0-based and 1-based indexing. C-based languages always   
   use 0-based indexing whereas others (like R, S) use 1-based.   
      
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