Floor Numbers In French

Second and deuxième they are essentially interchangeable but there is a general not always followed guideline.

Floor numbers in french. There are two french words for the english ordinal number second 2nd. In france i have never seen a rez de chaussée with number 1. On the first floor. 1 numeric floor numbering schemes 1 1 north american scheme 1 1 1 ussr variant 1 2 european scheme 2 common non numeric or mixed floor numbering systems 2 1 minus 2 2 additional a levels 2 3 basement b 2 4 ground.

As you can see a given french floor is always one number lower than a given american floor. Fortran was defined to require this behavior and thus almost all processors implement. Two words for the same number in french. Terms in this set 10 on the ground floor.

In most programming languages the simplest method to convert a floating point number to an integer does not do floor or ceiling but truncation the reason for this is historical as the first machines used ones complement and truncation was simpler to implement floor is simpler in two s complement. Le deuxième étage corresponds to the third floor not the second and le dix huitième étage corresponds to the nineteenth floor not the. On the second floor. If you can walk in from the street to floor number 1 it s because the building is on a hillside and has entrances on both floor 0 normally the main entrance and floor 1 typically a back entrance if it isn t numbered 0.

This is because the floors of french buildings are not numbered in the same way that american floors are. Floors in an apartment in french. Au rez de chaussée. On the third floor.