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Re:Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay V... by pests on Friday February 22, 2013 @10:24PM (#5268411)
Not sure if it applies in this instance but some customs have it so the ground floor is not counted and the second floor is referred to as the first and so on.
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Re:Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay V... by rogerbinns on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:00PM (#5268486)
I'm British and that is what we do. But that is the label applied to each floor in the lift (some places omit the 13th floor label) and some have floors below ground. However that doesn't change how many floors a building has.

The article is written by an American residing in the US about a building in the US so using American conventions would seem appropriate.

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Re:Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay V... by dyno12345 on Friday February 22, 2013 @11:16PM (#5268528)
They would still call it a two story building
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Re:Google reveals plans for 1.1M square foot, 4 floor ‘Bay V... by duaneb on Friday February 22, 2013 @10:41PM (#5268446)
Classic off-by-one error.
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