XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/10/10 13:14:25, Chris wrote:   
   > 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.    
   >    
   Yes, I've occasionally found lifts (elevators) where the ground floor   
   button is labelled with a 0. (More often it's a G, especially if there's   
   a basement [usually labelled B].)   
      
      
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