John Hudson wrote:
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> At 13:26 3/11/2002, Eric Muller wrote:
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> >In Paris, streets perpendicular to the Seine have 1 at the end closest to
> >the Seine; for streets parallel to the Seine, numbers increase in the same
> >direction as the water flows.
>
> That's the most beautiful thing I have
At 13:26 3/11/2002, Eric Muller wrote:
>In Paris, streets perpendicular to the Seine have 1 at the end closest to
>the Seine; for streets parallel to the Seine, numbers increase in the same
>direction as the water flows.
That's the most beautiful thing I have heard all day. Thank you.
John Hu
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>I am curious whether another "rule" valid in Italy also applies in other
>countries: here the numbering always starts on the end of the road which is
>nearer to the center.
>
In Paris, streets perpendicular to the Seine have 1 at the end closest
to the Seine; for streets
Barry Caplan wrote:
> Doesn't every address that USPS delivers to have a unique 9 digit
> zip code, making house numbers a legacy?
In fact no. As a trivial counterexample, P.O. Box Numbers
become ZIP+4 codes by adding the 5-digit ZIP code to the 4 low order
digits of the box number (as in my
At 01:16 PM 3/1/2002 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
What about the "100 house numbers per block" convention?
>This does not hold in the older parts of older U.S. cities
>(New York does not obey it south of 8th St. or so),
>but is quite general in the U.S. as a whole.
It holds for the whole of Baltimor
Otto Stolz wrote:
> Same here (southern Germany). Odd numbers on the left, even numbers
> on the right hand, when you look up the street (from small to
> larger numbers).
(Going off the deep end today, be warned!)
This rule does not hold here. In Manhattan, for example,
streets run both east
On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Patrick Andries wrote:
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> Marco Cimarosti wrote:
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> >John Cowan wrote:
> >
> >>[...] House numbers in North America (and in France
> >>also, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant
> >>(numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on
John Cowan had written:
> [...] House numbers[...]: the least-significant
> (numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on,
Same here (southern Germany). Odd numbers on the left, even numbers
on the right hand, when you look up the street (from small to
larger numbers).
Marc
Marco Cimarosti wrote:
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John Cowan wrote:
[...] House numbers in North America (and in Francealso, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant(numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on,[...]
John Cowan wrote:
> [...] House numbers in North America (and in France
> also, it seems) have a few bits of meaning: the least-significant
> (numeric) bit tells you which side of the street the house is on,
> [...]
It is the same in Italy. I was quite surprised to know that also in other
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