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Re:My Many Girlfriends by skydhash on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:53PM (#29829006)
In French, the first floor is called "Rez-de-chaussée" and the uppers are what called "Etage". So it's actually 1 based.
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Re:My Many Girlfriends by FabHK on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:49PM (#29830752)
But the etage above the Rez-de-chaussée is 1, correct? The Rez-de-chaussée then is 0. That is 0-based indexing.

  US  D  F
   3  2  2
   2  1  1
 __1__0__RdC
  B1 -1  je ne sais pas
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Re:My Many Girlfriends by skydhash on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:39PM (#29832298)
There is no Etage 0. People will just confusingly look at you if you ever said that. And the "Je ne sais pas' is called "Sous-sol"
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Re:My Many Girlfriends by gwhl on Friday January 07, 2022 @03:26AM (#29836495)
In a lot of elevators rez-de-chaussée is labelled 0. We just don't use that when communicating
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Re:My Many Girlfriends by scraptor on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:53PM (#29833132)
You can have multiple basement levels, which get numbered again. 1er Sousl-sol, 2eme Sous-sol etc. The ground floor might not be explicitly labeled as zero but the number between "one up" and "one down" is still zero.
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