[on topic] Beer

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:

> * Old streets in London are numbered up one side and back down the other.
>   This makes it rather hard to extend the street.

Only if you are so unimaginative that you constrain yourself to having
the numbers in the right order.  I suppose that you might want to have
them in some sane order within a particular postcode, but in theory the
postman uses the postcode to navigate to the right part of the street
before looking at building numbers.  So you could do this ...

1  2  3  4  5  6     24 26 28 30 32     21 19 17 15 13
-------------------|------------------|-----------------
     PQ1 2RS       |      PQ1 2RT     |     PQ1 2RU     
-------------------|------------------|-----------------
12 11 10 9  8  7     23 25 27 29 31     22 20 18 16 14

Or of course you could use non-integers:

1  2  3  4  5  6    6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 
-------------------|--------------------
     PQ1 2RS       |      PQ1 2RT
-------------------|--------------------
12 11 10 9  8  7    6.99 6.9 6.8 6.7 6.6

like has been done on Artillery Lane, which has a something.5 on it.

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