A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011)

Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by Swenrekcah on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:50PM (#17789951)

I guess if you divide the standard ceiling height with a comfortable step size you get 13

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by scoot on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:49PM (#17790267)

Reminded me of this video [1] talking about the fact that there are signs in London tube stations claiming the stairs are equivalent to 15 floors, regardless of the number of steps.

The number of floors is roughly correct for Covent Garden, so I guess it's possible that the original typesetter changed the number of steps, but forgot to change the number of floors.

[1] https://youtu.be/pBTvmrRGlbE?t=516

Incidental anecdote: While searching for this video, which I'd seen a year or so ago, I googled "tube 15 floors sign", but didn't see a reference to it, so I opened YouTube instead, and there, in recommended videos, was a video about the tube... by the same person that made the video above. It was a short hop to find the correct video.

It had never occurred to me that Google personalize youtube searches based on your google searches.

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by alexfoo on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:57PM (#17790310)

The ceiling height is not the same as the floor height of the next storey up.

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by saagarjha on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:08PM (#17792129)

Generally it's pretty close, though.

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