[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 88, Issue 31

[Ian Batten]

On 17 Jan 2014, at 18:42, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:


> On 15 Jan 2014 at 12:58, Richard Clark wrote:

> 

>> When you enter a building on ground level and you go to a room on the

>> 1st floor do you expect to use the stairs or elevator? The answer depends

>> on wheather you are in Europe or the US (or on the campus of the University

>> of Arizona).

> 

> One building at Carnegie Mellon University has a main, ground-level 

> entrance which puts you on the fifth floor.


I don't know if it's still true, but when I went for an interview at Leeds University thirty years ago, 
they had a system of numbering the floors from the lowest level on campus upwards, so the
ground floor of the computer science department was 11th floor.

ian