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A house number in Paris, France. House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building in a street or area, with the intention of making it easier to locate a particular building. The house number is often part of a postal address. The term describes the number of any building (residential or commercial) with a mailbox, or ...
Parent-child room numbering system. A room number is a number assigned to a room within a building. Its purpose is to identify a particular room, and help building inhabitants locate that room. [1] Room numbers may consist of three digits, but can be any number of digits. The room number is generally assigned with the first digit indicating the ...
The system was created by the Stark County, North Dakota, emergency coordinator Kornard Burkle in 1988 as a way of assigning addresses to houses for use in the then soon to be implemented enhanced 911 services in Stark County. [2] A key problem for the system was that since most of the county was rural farmland a significant number of farms in ...
"In Sweden, there is also a system for numbering farms (fastighetsbeteckningar) and thereby also the houses on them. The numbering is done per village. When a farm is split, either composited numbers (like 2:1 and 2:2) are made to be able differ the farms, or a completely new number, previously unused, can be given to one or both of the farms."
The Manhattan address algorithm is a series of formulas used to estimate the closest east–west cross street for building numbers on north–south avenues in the New York City borough of Manhattan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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A police station (sometimes called a "station house" or just "house") is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of police staff. Police stations typically contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms , temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms.
Desk; c. 1765; mahogany, chestnut and tulip poplar; 87.3 x 92.7 x 52.1 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table-style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer.