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As someone who does a bit of programming, I think a 256 story tall building should have floors 0-255. But as an American there should be 257 total floors so we can skip floor 13 because it's bad luck.
Can you imagine if we skipped 13 in our code and said screw it let's go 1-based, too ?
257.257.257.0