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Please don't. It's bad enough that the US and UK can't agree on floor numbering. :) USA 1st, 2nd, 3rd UK Ground, 1st, 2nd Is the basement in the US 0?
No, like the creator of the Anno Domini system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero , American elevator labelers do not believe in “unnatural” numbers < 1. Below the “first floor” they jump straight to B1.
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For descending, on some stairs I can descend while "falling", it's very fast and not tyring it all. You have to land on the edge of the stair below so you "drop", then rinse and repeat. If you do it constantly, you only have to support your body ( but you use your weight to fall, so don't support it too much) and slide with your hands. If you can't do it the first time, land with your foot normally and then always tu…
Take a look at my reply, we're doing the same damn thing! It's probably rather common.
An other variation would be to keep your feet in a 45° and then keep doing and landing on every stair edge
Never seen someone else doing that, it's insanely fast if you can master it :D
‘Frequently.’
‘How often?’
‘Well, some hundreds of times.’
‘Then how many are there?’
‘How many! I don’t know.’
‘Quite so. You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, because I have both seen and observed.’”
Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson, A Scandal In Bohemia, 1891
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Take a look at my reply, we're doing the same damn thing! It's probably rather common.
Lol, my legs do the same thing though while dropping. So a small variation on it :D An other variation would be to keep your feet in a 45° and then keep doing and landing on every stair edge Never seen someone else doing that, it's insanely fast if you can master it :D
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No, like the creator of the Anno Domini system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero , American elevator labelers do not believe in “unnatural” numbers < 1. Below the “first floor” they jump straight to B1.
Some US buildings also skip the 13th floor. Does the UK share this superstition?
Was asked this in a phone interview, I had no clue that Fibonacci would so delightfully turn up on the staircase.
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Lol, my legs do the same thing though while dropping. So a small variation on it :D An other variation would be to keep your feet in a 45° and then keep doing and landing on every stair edge Never seen someone else doing that, it's insanely fast if you can master it :D
Did that in my childhood on wooden stairs in my parents house. Rounded edges, kid of hazardous in general but great to slide down like this. Kind of want to try this again, but I also value the integrity of my bones.
It's not dangerous i think though, wooden stairs works best indeed :p
Yes, but do you start at 0 or 1? Also, is the last step you take onto the floor/landing counted? And when going down, do you use negative numbers? So many questions left unanswered. I feel you aren't a true stair counting nerd afterall. :-)
I know you're joking, but the number of steps is well defined and doesn't vary as it's essentially a difference. The difference between two numbers is always the same regardless of whether you're using a 0-indexed or a 1-indexed base system. E.g. regardless of whether you call an element in an array [1] or [2], it's still two elements away from whatever is [3] or [4] -- the number of stairs climbed is the same. So yo…
Yes, but do you start at 0 or 1? Also, is the last step you take onto the floor/landing counted? And when going down, do you use negative numbers? So many questions left unanswered. I feel you aren't a true stair counting nerd afterall. :-)
So, if I am walking; & approach a flight of stairs going upwards, before until my both feet are on same plane, stairs have not started & I can't start counting. As soon as I step "up", my feet is on different (higher in this case going upwards), I count it as first stair. Same on the other side. I continue counting till I am stepping up. As soon as I land my both feets on same level; any foot-step after that doesn't get counted in step-count.
Other way to count steps are imagine if we look ar stairs' drawing or cross-section view from side; i.e. a right-angled zig-zag line going up. On both ends, ground & landing lines are also there i.e. the drawing has always a horizontal line on upper & lower side representing floor & landing. This line is from bottom-left; going upwards towards top-right; the drawing's triangular section of bottom-right is, assume, filled in with concrete/anything; & a person walks on left-top section.
Any 90 degree outward bend on this side is a step.
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