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So 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...
Regina Pizzeria at 11½ Thacher St in Boston's North End
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Pizzeria
I imagine there are more in that neighbourhood.
So 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.
Sold for 3.5 million in 2013. Undoubtedly worth more much now. https://streeteasy.com/building/75-and-a-half-bedford-street...
https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13026197/ha...
So 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...
There may also be an addition of multiple letters. For example: in the Netherlands it is not uncommon to see a number like '45 bis' or even '45 bis B'.
'bis' is latin for 'twice', indicating that the building was split into 2 separate houses at some point in time.
So 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...
That article actually links to a HN discussion (about the same article) from 2013[0] with more examples, which does indeed point out that street numbers do not need to be integers [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5791489
https://rew-online.com/paramount-sells-zero-bond-street-for-...
So 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...
So 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.
So 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 many countries it's common for an entire apartment building to have a single number (or one number per floor) and then a letter for the individual apartments (1A, 1B, 5C, etc). There may also be an addition of multiple letters. For example: in the Netherlands it is not uncommon to see a number like '45 bis' or even '45 bis B'. 'bis' is latin for 'twice', indicating that the building was split into 2 separate house…