Depends which country your building is in, and more!
My apartment building is 1,2… but my mall is G,M,1,2… (same country different architects). For many years I lived in Europe where it’s usually G,1,2… (where G can also be E or Fsz or whatever) and when I was in the US I had to remember that 1 is G, though L,2,3… is also common.
City people live with index ambiguity all the time and our brains manage just fine.
0.5 ... yep that won't work
In some buildings build around 1900 where I live the "ground" floor is not on the ground but around 1/2 a floor above the ground floor. While the cellar is just half below the ground. Because of this the cellar has above ground level windows allowing legal cellar apartments (oversimplified in Germany apartments require windows which are above ground).
This creates a lot of confusion.
By convention this 0.5 floor still counts as ground floor with the floor number 0. But people confuse it all the time for the first floor. Especially if in some cases you do have a few utility rooms exactly at ground floor.
Now things get worse if you live in a cellar apartment in such house: By convention floor -1.
Because nearly everyone will thing you mistyped as normally you legally can't have apartments below the ground floor.
Another fun index ambiguity is for apartments build on a mountain side/cliff.
In this case depending on which side of the house you look at the ground floor might be at, above or below the ground level. Often the floor level with the main entrance counts as ground floor, but sometimes it is not the case and e.g. the lowest floor not below ground or the highest floor even with a "ground".
So yes, index/floor level ambiguity is everywhere and much worse then just is ground floor 0 or 1 ;)
Do you count the machine floors in high rise buildings?
In AU, the ground floor is effectively "zero", the first floor is the one above ground. Depending on the design of the building, there might be a "mezzanine" floor between ground and 1st.
Basements usually follow the same pattern, so B1 is the first floor below ground etc.
Confused me when I visited USA.
> Confused me when I visited USA
It's applied inconsistently enough to be confusing for natives too!