Monday, October 18, 2010
quicko: house numbers
More often than American addresses, Australian addresses are likely to actually follow some semblance of order -- and not go ridiculously higher than the actual number of houses on a street. So, while many Americans would have a four digit house number, many Australians would have a one, two or three digit house number. Five digits are virtually unheard of.
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Unless you're in a rural area where the number is based on how far from the start of the road you are, rounded to the nearest 10m. So 1234 would be 12.34km and 12345 would be 123.45 km.
You neglected to mention the most interesting facet of Australian house numbers, though. That being that they are written in improper fraction format. In America, we never have two numbers with a slash between for a house number, even when it is an apartment.
Nothing improper - just different - and quicker. :-)
And then again, German addresses are almost in reverse order. Considering they invented the postcode (zip code) idea, maybe we should follow their example.
Improper in the mathematical sense where the numerator is larger than the denominator -- which often happens in Australian addresses. For example, 32/20 Any Street -- Apt. 32 at street address 20, which would in American be written as 20 Any Street, Apt. 32.
Here I am an engineer, married to a maths teacher, and I had forgotten about that definition. :-)
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