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I'm glad I am not your mailman.
by Edinburger 17y ago
I'm glad I am not your mailman.
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoIt's not me - I live at http://www.penzba.co.uk/my_house_number.png http://www.penzba.co.uk/my_house_number.png
- jacquesm 17y agoHumor for mathematicians. I really should come to attend one of your talks. Need 48 hour days. And a calculus course.
- robertk 17y agoYou need parentheses around the -1. Otherwise the series is divergent. I presume you do not live at a divergent address? :)
- RiderOfGiraffes 17y agoThat depends on which school you went to, but point taken. I've inserted the parentheses.
- bhousel 17y agoOr the local EMS, Fire, Police, etc.. Seriously, I'd get that changed. There are plenty of reasons someone might want to find your house quickly.
- anamax 17y agoPeople often need to solve the problem of finding a house where the number is readily apparent. In some/many places, one could find that house by interpolation. (In the US, even numbers tend to be on one side of the street and odd numbers on the other. And they're almost always in-order.) With an apartment, things can be more complicated. That said, there are instances of "vanity addresses", where "<some number> 5th Ave" appears to not be on 5th Ave. I don't know what one does in Japan, where the numbers are supposedly assigned chronologically. (Hmm - I wonder what triggers number generation and if they ever reuse or allow transfers.)