How come building floors are numbered from the bottom up

[IronWing]

but drawers in a cabinet are numbered from the top down?

How come screen coordinates place 0,0 in the upper left (similar to spread sheet cells) when mathematical graphs place 0,0 in the lower left (for positive numbered graphs)?

How come Europeans kept the right to left order of Arabic numerals when they adopted them?

Why are organics good and phosphates good but organophosphates are bad?

 

[SaltyNuts]

How come you ask so many silly questions, is the real question.

 

[Naer]

Jehovah wanted it this way

 

[Jeeebus]

because you touch yourself at night.

 

[lxskllr]

but drawers in a cabinet are numbered from the top down?

Didn't know drawers were numbered.

How come screen coordinates place 0,0 in the upper left (similar to spread sheet cells) when mathematical graphs place 0,0 in the lower left (for positive numbered graphs)?

to make life difficult so people couldn't "do computers", therefore ensuring job security

How come Europeans kept the right to left order of Arabic numerals when they adopted them?

I'm pretty sure my numbers go left to right

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway?

 

[IronWing]

Didn't know drawers were numbered.

to make life difficult so people couldn't "do computers", therefore ensuring job security

I'm pretty sure my numbers go left to right

Nope, they are right justified and grow to the left. We "read" them left to right but they are right to left in nature.

 

[lxskllr]

Nope, they are right justified and grow to the left. We "read" them left to right but they are right to left in nature.

Ah, I see. I'd have to give it some thought, but that's probably the best way. The most relevant number will be left, and can be viewed farther right as necessary, which would be comfortable for westerners. Or maybe I'm just used to it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Sheep221]

but drawers in a cabinet are numbered from the top down?

How come screen coordinates place 0,0 in the upper left (similar to spread sheet cells) when mathematical graphs place 0,0 in the lower left (for positive numbered graphs)?

How come Europeans kept the right to left order of Arabic numerals when they adopted them?

Why are organics good and phosphates good but organophosphates are bad?

Answers are simple:
1. Try to enter building from top floor.
2. Try to put your most important stuff to bottom drawer in your desk.
3. Open excel and go 100 cells down and start typing something from down to up.
4. Write down 10 digits from right to left.
5. Don't know the last one, but if you do the above 4 before you go nuts from being annoyed you have your answers on why.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If they added more floors they'd have to renumber every single floor in the building and everyone would need to get new business cards made.

 

[John Connor]

Why do European ambulances sound like -- well...

 

[John Connor]

because you touch yourself at night.

 

[Malogeek]

Living in the US, I told the staff of the company I worked for my new office was on the 1st floor. Nobody could find me because they were looking on the ground floor. Silly Americans.

 

[Darwin333]

Living in the US, I told the staff of the company I worked for my new office was on the 1st floor. Nobody could find me because they were looking on the ground floor. Silly Americans.

Well because that is the first floor of the building, it was the first one built...

 

[Scarpozzi]

Well because that is the first floor of the building, it was the first one built...

That's typically the basement.

 

[Linflas]

How come screen coordinates place 0,0 in the upper left (similar to spread sheet cells) when mathematical graphs place 0,0 in the lower left (for positive numbered graphs)?

My guess would be that this is due to the fact we read text from left to right starting from the top and proceeding down therefore placing the first character in the upper left corner made sense.

 

[Malogeek]

Well because that is the first floor of the building, it was the first one built...

It was in jest. English/Australian standard is ground floor then 1st floor. American standard is 1st floor then 2nd floor. No one is right (unless you're American), it's just a cultural nomenclature difference.

 

[cbrunny]

because you touch yourself at night.

that's between me and windows 10.

 

[JulesMaximus]

because you touch yourself at night.

Congrats, you win the thread.

 

[Darwin333]

That's typically the basement.

I'm from New Orleans, we don't have basements here because of the whole below sea level thing. Do most multi-story structures up north have basements?

 

[Darwin333]

It was in jest. English/Australian standard is ground floor then 1st floor. American standard is 1st floor then 2nd floor. No one is right (unless you're American), it's just a cultural nomenclature difference.

I'm just used to it, never heard of a different way I guess. I would feel weird if I was on the 1st floor and if the building was on fire I couldn't just walk out of a broken window and instead had to jump.

 

[lxskllr]

I'm from New Orleans, we don't have basements here because of the whole below sea level thing. Do most multi-story structures up north have basements?

Around here(MD), virtually every house has a basement of some kind. Exceptions being in a flood plain, and for very cheap houses to shave costs. Same with big buildings. They go down as well as up.

 

[Chaotic42]

How come screen coordinates place 0,0 in the upper left (similar to spread sheet cells) when mathematical graphs place 0,0 in the lower left (for positive numbered graphs)?

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/qu...computer-graphics-coordinates-at-the-top-left

I do agree that the origin should be at the bottom left.

 

[Malogeek]

Well graphs are really sections of a Cartesian plane so the origin is based in the middle and thus in a positive quadrant, the lower left.

 

[Darwin333]

Around here(MD), virtually every house has a basement of some kind. Exceptions being in a flood plain, and for very cheap houses to shave costs. Same with big buildings. They go down as well as up.

Why? Is it cheaper to dig a big ass hole and put in a basement rather than building another floor up or something?