why are houses numbered evenly on one side of the street and odd on the other?
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Well, it helps me know what side of the street a house or building will be on.  If I see that odd numbers are on the left side of the road, and there is an odd number on my address, then I know that I'll have to be prepared to turn left!\n\nAlso, if all the even numbers and odd numbers were on the same side of the road, what would be on the OTHER side of the road?  More numbers I guess, but I think that having it the way that it is just makes it easier to find things.
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I imagine every town has their own "A St.", "B St.", "C St.", "D St.", etc. I think we have A-F here in my town. (Northern California) That whole section of town is kind of a ghetto like area. It's sort of interesting to me that almost any city I've been to that has short street names like that, also has their ghetto area there.
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All these answers are wrong.\n\nTheres always two sides to an object, person place or thing. study it you will figure it out.
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The terms may frequently apply to exactly the same thing. However, 'road' is a general term, whereas 'street' is narrower in sense and chiefly urban in application: a street typically has buildings on either side, and is paved or metalled.
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just a piont of view, but normally to divide something symmetrically you have to do it at the widest piont along the centre line. where as assymetricaly is off the centre line at a narrower piont and therefore not a symmetry,this only applies to poloygons and symmetric shapes.  hope this helps
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"Back in the day", street names were often just given based on where the road went.  If the road went to London, it was called London Road.  If the road was the main street in the town, it was called Main Street.\n\nNowadays, property developers normally include street name proposals in the plans they put forward to the local councils for approval and planning permission
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The simple answer is because they are roads. Sometimes another name may seem more appropriate, but "road" was the name long before.
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the number of ur bulding and street name.
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The layout of a dart board is designed so the high numbers have low numbers adjacent to them at top and bottom, but the middle range numbers are close together at the sides.\n\nThere were a number of different lay outs used but they agreed on a standard one years ago. Since then some Mathematicians with far too much time on there hands proved the current layout is nearly a perfect permutation for 20 numbers such that the high ones are adjacent to low ones.
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The reason the layers are created are so that you don't have separation.\n\nThe reason that the layers are of a specific size is to prevent separation.\n\nThe reason each layer should be "even" is just so that the contractor can remember a single number, not multiple numbers.\n\nAlternate answer: you are misinterpreting ACI.
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Many cities use Avenues and Streets to tell if the road is going North and South or East and West.
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Well, I live in Northeastern town but we have parking in the middle of the street too. It's because originally, the roads had large medians along the side and houses were built right along the road. When they realized parking would be a problem, they couldn't fit perpendicular parking on both sides of the road so the only alternative was to get rid of the median and put parking in the street
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The house numbers are related to the block number in the city, or suburb. So, your block is number 12000. Also, there are probably a lot more Oak St. (unless you live in a small town) than just yours... so, the city made your numbers as they are to refrain from getting mail mixed up... \n\nAccording to Wikipedia, "In much of North America, buildings are not numbered according to a simple sequence but rather according to distance from a given baseline. As a result, four- and five-digit addresses are common. Odd numbers are typically on one side of the street, evens on the other. In cities with a grid pattern of streets, addresses often increase by 100 for each cross street. Addresses may also correlate with a street-numbering system."\n\n\nHope I helped... but you can always ask the city, too... somehow
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Bob, I used to enjoy your show before you started doing all those really expensive houses.  Then, of course, you left.\n\nOh, well.\n\nDon't you know, Bob, that isosceles triangles don't have "right sides?"  An isosceles triangle has two "legs" of equal length.  If it is a right isosceles triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse.\n\nSay hi to Norm for me!
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In an odd-number base the number x is odd if Q(x) is odd, and even if Q(x) is even.\n\nIn an even base the number is odd if the last digit is odd, and even if the last digit is even.
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Because when the city was being built, most building materials were stone and the street signs were wooden.  It is too hard to carve a J in stone and make it not look like a messed-up L or I.  There's also an urban legend about political falling-outs between John Jay, who was the first cheif justice of the Supreme Court, and some of the city designers, particularly L'enfant, which led to L'enfant leaving J Street out of the map but that's just an urban legend.
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not everyone does this.  anyway, the answer is because they were taught to do so.  I think it was to be sure the number didn't get confused with another.