[on topic] Beer

[Paul Makepeace]

On 8/13/07, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > * Old streets in London are numbered up one side and back down the other.
> >   This makes it rather hard to extend the street.
>
> Only if you are so unimaginative that you constrain yourself to having
> the numbers in the right order.  I suppose that you might want to have
> them in some sane order within a particular postcode, but in theory the
> postman uses the postcode to navigate to the right part of the street
> before looking at building numbers.  So you could do this ...
>
> 1  2  3  4  5  6     24 26 28 30 32     21 19 17 15 13
> -------------------|------------------|-----------------
>      PQ1 2RS       |      PQ1 2RT     |     PQ1 2RU

Ah, postcodes. You don't realise how lucky you are. Dublin's
"postcodes" consist of a small integer that spans at least the size of
the most-significant-bit of a UK postcode. E.g. I live in "Dublin 8"
and that's as much resolution as you'll get. To make matters worse,
the roads change name every 1-200m for no discernible reason. The
numbering also switches between up-one-side-down-the-other and
alternately odd/even.

P

> -------------------|------------------|-----------------
> 12 11 10 9  8  7     23 25 27 29 31     22 20 18 16 14
>
> Or of course you could use non-integers:
>
> 1  2  3  4  5  6    6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5
> -------------------|--------------------
>      PQ1 2RS       |      PQ1 2RT
> -------------------|--------------------
> 12 11 10 9  8  7    6.99 6.9 6.8 6.7 6.6
>
> like has been done on Artillery Lane, which has a something.5 on it.
>
> --
> David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist
>
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>