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The Relationship Between the Floors of a Building

I don't totally get what he means. That things are a bit different when they're big. There's several different things going on. Like I suspect if you're at the bottom of the Burj Khalifa, it doesn't feel any bigger than being at thebottom of other things. Whereas like Westfield Shopping Centre, for example, which is that it has like three car parks which are attached to it. It has lots of different repeated bits which are identical and all sorts of other arbitrary bits which are different. And then it has a relationship between all of them which is very hard. But that's a bit of a plexity not scale really. You could have a building

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