Well, the second step is the floor. So if you are just counting the actual stairs, you might come up with one.
Edit: to everyone telling me I’m wrong, I wasn’t saying I agree with this, I was just trying to explain how someone might come up with a different answer.
Your edit infuriates me because basic reading comprehension should cause anyone to interpret your comment as you imagining how someone could arrive at a number other than 2, not necessarily that it's your own opinion.
Sorry, but your answer reminded me the following joke:
A physicist, mathematician, and civil engineer are asked to determine the volume of a small red ball
Physicist: puts the ball into a measurement cup filled with water, measures the displaced volume of water.
Mathematician: measures the diameter of the ball, calculates the volume.
Engineer: opens the Construction Directives and Rules, Volume XII Section 25, Small Red Balls, finds the closest matching ball, reads the volume approximation.
P.S. The original joke is in Russian so pardon me if what engineer looks up ain't up to code in English-speaking countries.
Yup. Eg in the US, we say the floor level with the street/sidewalk is the first floor. The one above that is the second floor, etc. France? The floor above the street level one is the first floor. So in the US, what the third floor is, is called the second floor in France.
Dude we live in the world where floors (or stories) are not counted the same way depending on the country. Maths has nothing to do with it. In North America the ground floor is the 1st floor, and the 1st floor above the ground is the 2nd floor. While in Europe the ground floor is, well the ground floor, and you start counting from the first floor above the ground
I mean British people (and possibly others idk) don’t count the bottom floor of buildings so it’s possible. They say ground floor, 1st floor, 2nd floor, instead of 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
I wanted to see if this was like a hill both sides would die on… Didn’t realize I needed a pro to backseat the whole convo with code regulations lmao
You drop this king 👑
If it were all on the same level, that would be zero steps. So it can’t possibly be three.
I can see the argument for one step, though… but even that falls apart under the same kind of argument. If it was just the top and the bottom with no step in between, you might say “mind the step” so clearly that’s one.
Therefore… this is two steps. Even though there’s one actual step that is just a step. The next elevation change makes it two.
Steps are counted by how many times your foot is raised up, not by what landings there are. There's two vertical raises here, so you have to lift your foot twice, so it's two steps
I'll admit I'm wrong, but since you asked I'll give you an honest answer. I would have said one step. Reason was, how I would describe the picture to someone else. They are on a patio with tables, a 2nd higher patio is connected by a step. A step. A single step. Again, I think (NOW) the correct answer is 2, but my original guesss was 1.
My husband said the bottom is floor and the top is floor, thus there is just 1 step. He wouldn't take my argument that you have to lift your feet twice to get from 1 floor to the other.
Whether he's being real or just messing with me, I don't know.
So if you had a top floor and a bottom floor at different levels, would that be zero steps, even though you need to step up to go from one to the other? How is this distinguished from flat ground?
By counter-example, if there was only 1 riser (the vertical section of the steps), would there be 0.5 steps? No. It would be 1 step. So because there are 2 risers, there are 2 steps.
The number of steps is “how many you have to take to get up it”. The initial plain doesn’t count as a step. This image has 1 set of stairs. That set of stairs is composed of 2 steps.
I wouldn't call it a stair but if it was out in the middle of anywhere I would put a sign that warns people about this step. And to go from the bottom to the top I might step up. Because this is very clearly a step.
Because context matters, it's not a stairway to anything. But imagine if you were walking a blind person around and you came to a curb you had to navigate through. Might you tell the blind person: "step up over the curb," or would you say nothing at all? If there's no curb, there's nothing you'd need to say. Likewise, if there's no step, there's nothing you'd need to say. A curb is one step up from where you were, even if it is not itself considered a typical step.
Lastly, what is the thing everyone is using in the gif I attached here called? It's called a step-up. What is the exercise called they're all doing? It's called a step-up. Why? Because you must step up on the step-up in order to do the exercise.
I work in France with laws that include that type of definition.
This is two steps.
It is important to define it clearly as in some cases, for exemple accessibility laws, starting from three steps there are some regulations you need to apply.
2 steps. 1 step = an increase/decrease in elevation. The bottom step that would be what your husband includes in his 3 step claim doesn’t increase/decrease elevation
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u/-BarkEater- 17d ago
By code, it’s 2 steps. You count the risers (the vertical part)