I have a friend who used to live at 44⅔ which was an old house broken into 3 flats
That is officially irrational and awesome.
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75½ Bedford Street
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#22So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
I remember seeing some in Poland a bit outside of Warsaw, presumably where a larger piece of land had been sub-divided. I wonder if they fixed that by re-numbering in the last few decades or not.
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#23As a child, I lived with my family for a few years on a traditional narrowboat [1]. These are 6'10" across or less (the walls slope in a little inside) down a length of between 20 and 70 foot, or 68 foot in our case.
Living in a small, narrow space is actually surprisingly easy. There were 4 of us, and whilst it was difficult at times, most of the pressures were about not being hooked up to infrastructure like running water, sewage and electricity.
Such spaces force a sense of minimalism that I think we've lost in the modern World. The space many of us have is very luxurious in many ways.
This house looks lovely, and other narrow/slim houses linked here and from Wikipedia to my mind look great.
I wonder why this style is not more popular given the inherent advantages (i.e. running cost, less space to clean, etc.)?
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#24So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
Yes, if a single fam home is split into a duplex it can end up with fractional addresses if no slack was left in the street numbering scheme.
Sometimes they use A,B,C,D as well rather than fractions.
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#26So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
I wonder how many of those there are in the US. I used to work on postal address recognition software and I don't recall that we had any capability for recognizing strings of digits that contained fractions. It was a long time ago now, but it seems like something I would have remembered.
I used to live at a fractional address and it was pretty much impossible to represent your address accurately in a lot of systems.
I ended up usually writing it as "200h" instead of "200 1/2".
Worked surprisingly well. One of the advantages of having deliveries still carried out by actual people where the address apparently doesn't have to be an exact match.
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#27So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
Not only that. New York has 6-1/2 avenue
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%C2%BD_Avenue)
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder how many of those there are in the US. I used to work on postal address recognition software and I don't recall that we had any capability for recognizing strings of digits that contained fractions. It was a long time ago now, but it seems like something I would have remembered.
I used to live at a fractional address and it was pretty much impossible to represent your address accurately in a lot of systems. I ended up usually writing it as "200h" instead of "200 1/2". Worked surprisingly well. One of the advantages of having deliveries still carried out by actual people where the address apparently doesn't have to be an exact match.
Yes, I suppose as long as the street name is recognized it will usually go to the right carrier, at least for fairly short streets.
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#29So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
It would be nice to know what assumptions can be made, instead of having an ever increasing list of ones that cannot be made.
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#30So a house number can be a fraction? That's something that should be added to https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
In the Chicago area, it's not uncommon for a platted lot to be split in half so that the house numbers would be, e.g., 4012, 4012½, 4014