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Daniel Pittman writes: > On 3 Mar 2005, foofy@xxxxxx.xxx wrote: > > > Same reason nobody calls it the "zero-eth" floor. > > Australia does, almost universally. Well, "Ground floor", which is > the same thing: the first floor is the floor *above* that. <Snip> That reminds me of the user-interface on the lift control panel of offices I used to work in ... > Ahem. This is a list for /software/ rants, isn't it. Sorry. ... and a user-interface is _almost_ software, isn't it? For some reason the interface was designed to look like that of a calculator, where you entered your desired floor number. The top floor of the building was floor 2, which made the digits 3 to 9 completely redundant. That wouldn't've been so bad, except that the basement in this system was floor "-1", which involved pressing the "-" key followed by "1" -- there were far more buttons than floors, yet one of the floors still required two button presses! And we never did work out what the decimal point was for. For the purpose of naming the guilty party, this was a Schindler's lift. SmylersThere's stuff above here
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