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Old Posted Jun 9, 2019, 6:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Minato Ku View Post
That's common in Europe. In France, the floor underground are numbered with negative numbers.


Except that you don't count the "floor" but the level above the ground level (excluded). The word "Étage" in French.
A one level house doesn't have any "étage". You need two level to have "1 etage".
The ground floor is 0.

High-rise in France is numbered like that
-4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15... The 13 isn't skipped.
Never heard of this - will have to ask the kids who took French if they have.

In Chicago we number the floors starting at the main street level, so in my building LL1 is below the street, and LL2 is the actual ground level, LL3 and LL4 are actually below grade (and below the river level).
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