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Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes. I remember being in a building that was 668 and we called it neighbor of the bea
by protomyth 4y ago
Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes.
I remember being in a building that was 668 and we called it neighbor of the beast (US streets have odd on one side and even house numbers on the other).
- hobo_mark 4y ago...as in Europe (but I am certain there are exceptions and am looking forward to the replies pointing out where that is not the case)
- ajay-d 4y agorelated maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor%27s_prime
- kuschku 4y agohttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_numbers_clockwise.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:House_numbers_clockw...
- contravariant 4y agoI don't know of any country that uses an entirely different system, but I'm willing to bet each country has a couple of exceptions somewhere.
- etamponi 4y agoIIRC, Japan uses (or used?) to number buildings in chronological order.
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoObligatory: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/ https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
- stardenburden 4y agoBerlin uses a different system in the older parts of the city https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-berlin-house-numbers-map.html?m=1 https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-berlin-hous...
- bloak 4y agoWikipedia describes two systems in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering#United_Kingdom According to both those systems, if you look down the street from the end where number 1 is (which is always the open end of a cul-de-sac), then number 1 is the first house on your left. I'd be interested to hear about any exceptional cases in which number one is on your right.
- 867-5309 4y ago"Triablo"
- MisterTea 4y ago> Well, there is about three devils worth of pain in our Unix servers sometimes. Our machines have been possessed by daemons for years so I'm not at all worried.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoThat is not a strict rule. I grew up in a neighborhood where houses were numbered by the order the lots sold. They were effectively random.
- protomyth 4y agoI know. I grew up on a road with no name that numbered the houses with an odd cadence. But, well mannered neighborhoods have stuck with the scheme such that most people recognize the reference.