How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement)

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I still don't know if it goes ground floor, second floor or ground floor, first floor, second floor

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Just 1. The ground floor.

Ground floor is 1st floor.

I've never seen an elevator using any other way of counting floors, so I think the buttons on an elevator are a pretty convincing piece of evidence to figure this out. But then, I've also never been on an elevator outside of the US. However, I do believe Otis was the first elevator and they started in the US, so the way we do it is the correct way. 😤

In Europe (at least in the places I visited), the ground floor is 0 and the floors below that are -1, -2, ... and above are 1, 2, ... which makes more sense in my opinion

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