On Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:24:19 +0100, NY wrote:
> Numbers are better, because it is blindingly obvious how they should be
> sorted in increasing order of release. Same as for house numbers versus
> house names, when you are trying to find a specific house in a street.
>
Not always - apparently in Tokyo house numbers within a block are
assigned in the order that the houses were built, which is why all Tokyo
taxi-drivers use GPS systems. That gem surfaced during the first GPS
Millennium in 1999.
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