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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There's no such thing as "zeroith" because it's called "zeroth — being numbered zero in a series"

This works for building storeys, this would work equally well for tables. The only reason this is not used often is because the series are rarely zero-based in anything that doesn't also want to equate index and offset.

You're right that first may be read as "opposite of last", that would add to the confusion, but that's just natural language not being precise enough.

Edit: spelling

Edit2: also, if you extend that logic, when you're presented with an ordinal number, you would need to first check all the options, sort them, and then apply the position you're asked, that's not really how people would expect ordinal number to be treated, not me, at the very least

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Americans also index their building floors from 1

A two storey American building has floors 1 and 2, where elsewhere they might be ground (zero) and 1.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not only them, and I'm not here to blame 😅

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Indeed, however the Americans stand out in the anglosphere

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Canada sad.

They always forget about us.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which standard does Canada use?

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

1st floor is the entrance level.