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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Room 0123 isn't an option? With 0 being the ground floor?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

It's not the zeroth floor, it's the ground floor. G123.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

0451

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

"Room eight"

"Room two thousand eight"