Re: Types of numerals

Hi!

wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> writes:
> Nik Taylor nevesht:
>...
> > Using letters, you run out after 26.
You could use Avenue AA, AB, AC, AD, of course. :-)

>...
> In Surrey, British Columbia, Avenues are E-W numbered north from the
> 49th parallel and Streets are N-S numbered east from the
> ocean(approximately). The blacks are numbered 8 to the miles(which I
> have heard called "Canadian blocks"), and intermediate streets are
> given a letter.  So we have locations like 128A Street and 98B
> Avenue.
That's quite funny.  And 26 streets in a mile are probably
unlikely. .-)

In Germany, the houses are usually numbered by distance, too, so if
your house is wider that a certain threshold, the next house will
increase its number by the a multiple of the normal increment.

I formulated the previous sentence so carefully since in some cities
(most?) one side of the road has even numbers while the other one has
odd numbers, so the increment on a certain side is two.  But in other
cities, the streets are numbered contiguously on each side, starting
at one end of the road enumberating to the other end, and then turning
around and enumerating the other side in the opposite direction.

Sometimes, however, it happens that the increment is too small and
when another house is built in between two others with no possibility
of inserting a good integer number for the new house (reenumerating
the whole street is quite unlikely...).  Then letters usually are
used.  But in Marburg (at least there), they use a mixture of
fractions and numbers!  I've seen a sequence of house numbers like
this:

   6
   6 1/2
   6b
   6 3/4
and then, finally:
   8

So there's the address 'Koblenzer Straße 6 3/4'.

:-) Very funny.  I took pictures, this is not fiction.  Fractional
numbers are quite common in Marburg.  Dunno about other cities.

**Henrik

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