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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Yeah, I don't think there is any one standard for naming the ground floor in the U.S. In NYC it just depends on the particular building, although L/Lobby is common for office buildings. My apartment building calls the main floor "1", but I've lived in other buildings that start numbering from 1 on the second level.
The weirdest numbering I've encountered was in Spain, where the floors underground are numbered with negative signs. It makes sense, but the first time I saw it I was confused when trying to figured out how to get to a rental car that I parked in an underground lot.
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The negative signs make sense, but yeah, I don't think they would do that in the US.
The main/Central public library in downtown Los Angeles has 5 upper levels and 4 basement levels; the lower levels are labeled as LL1, LL2, LL3 and LL4, with LL4 being the lowest level, of course.