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Re: 75½ Bedford Street

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Post by throwaway3563 »

gumby wrote: post #45
warpech wrote: post #10

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 a country where addresses have to be ordered, if not enough numerical space has been left between existing structures you have to do something , either renumbering (painful and rare) or increasing resolution. Sherlock Holmes' "222B Baker Street" is a famous example. In France if you put a building between existing addresses 11 and 13 you might do "11 bis" (or if that's taken even "11 ter"). "bis" might be translat…

Seems like it would much more common where the numbering system alternates monotonically for the length of the street. In eg. USA where the numbers go up by 100 per block, there are gaps to make use of.

Re: 75½ Bedford Street

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Post by sybarita »

tgflynn wrote: post #17
warpech wrote: post #10

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...

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.

They're not uncommon at all. Surprised to see people in the comments here surprised to learn about them. Might be uncommon in other countries but it's pretty normal in the US.

Re: 75½ Bedford Street

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Post by gumby »

throwaway3563 wrote: post #51
gumby wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a country where addresses have to be ordered, if not enough numerical space has been left between existing structures you have to do something , either renumbering (painful and rare) or increasing resolution. Sherlock Holmes' "222B Baker Street" is a famous example. In France if you put a building between existing addresses 11 and 13 you might do "11 bis" (or if that's taken even "11 ter"). "bis" might be translat…

Seems like it would much more common where the numbering system alternates monotonically for the length of the street. In eg. USA where the numbers go up by 100 per block, there are gaps to make use of.

In a big, old city like Paris or even New York there’s been enough infill over the years that any gals have been consumed.
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