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Is there any relation between education and shopping? In the most clear term there cannot be any since both of them represent two separate disciplines devoid of any mutual relation. Well this had been the conformist conviction for ages. But with the change of time this is also changing since you shall have to shop in a better way to fare well in the examinations. How? Nowadays with the exponentia..

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In architecture, a floor is generally the lower horizontal surface of a room (see also flooring). The various levels of rooms in a building are also called floors or stories (singular: story) (storeys in British English (singular: storey)): "ground floor", "first story", "mezzanine floor", etc.

A confusion arises between the two forms of floor numbering in use worldwide.

In most of Europe, and thus in British and Commonwealth usage, the floor at the ground level is the ground floor, and the floor above is the first floor, which maintains the continental European use dating from the days of the construction of palaces. For example, in French, the term for the ground floor is rez de chaussée. But in North American usage (except in Quebec), the floor at the ground level is usually, but not always, the first floor and the floor above is the second floor; this system is also used in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. China follows the American system, except that the numbers used are cardinals (one, two, three, etc.) rather than ordinals (first, second, third).


   

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