The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Just Post@lemmy.world · 7 days agoThis is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square316fedilinkarrow-up1643arrow-down110
arrow-up1633arrow-down1imageThis is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Just Post@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square316fedilink
minus-squareKellysNokia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down4·7 days agoThe benefit of starting the number at 1 is the majority of apartment blocks and hotels can have 4 digit room numbers with the first digit representing the floor it’s on. E.g. room 4201 is on 4th floor and 1691 is on 1st floor
minus-squarespeeding_slug@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up20arrow-down1·7 days agoRoom 0123 isn’t an option? With 0 being the ground floor?
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down2·7 days agoIt’s not the zeroth floor, it’s the ground floor. G123.
minus-squareGodnroc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agoI like this system, but only above ground. I had a meeting room that was in 0008 and that just hurts to say verbally. Zero-zero-zero-eight Triple-zero-eight Room 8 Zero-zero-eight (I hated this one the most.) On the second floor you would say something like twenty-o-eight.
minus-squareblockheadjt@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days ago“Room eight” “Room two thousand eight”
The benefit of starting the number at 1 is the majority of apartment blocks and hotels can have 4 digit room numbers with the first digit representing the floor it’s on.
E.g. room 4201 is on 4th floor and 1691 is on 1st floor
Room 0123 isn’t an option? With 0 being the ground floor?
It’s not the zeroth floor, it’s the ground floor. G123.
I like this system, but only above ground. I had a meeting room that was in 0008 and that just hurts to say verbally.
On the second floor you would say something like twenty-o-eight.
“Room eight”
“Room two thousand eight”
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