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A comment on A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011). Parent comment

Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by modells on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:17PM (#17790418)
Subterranean floors should be numbered negatively.

And, why not number floors using binary or hex?

;)

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Re:A Nerd’s Way to Walk Up the Stairs (2011) by sriku on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:35PM (#17790507)
In India, not only are ground floors often numbered 0, subterranean ones are in many places numbered -1, -2.
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