Re: Types of numerals

Quoting Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>:

> 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.
Where my parents live, streets are split in two parts, one part having odd and
the other even numbers. To make it even better, the evens are split with
even-evens on one side of the street and even-odds on the other, and
correspondlingly for the odds, so that increment are always four. Took some
time getting used to back when I was a newspaper dealer.

Many of the streets lack a few of the lower numbers, like 1, 3, 2. The really
perplexing one, however, is the one where the even numbers run from 4 to 44,
whereas the odd numbers run from 31 to to ninety-something. If there's a logic
to this, it escapes me.

There's also a street with the numbers 3, 5, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e. There are no
even numbers, and since 3 and 5 make up one side of the street and 7a-7e the
other, it can't very well be a German-style distance issue either.

                                     Andreas