Re: Frying and egg

In article <h1e83v$5e0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ildhund <jnllb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Same here, I'm afraid, except that electronic input is usually
case-insensitive. The OCR sorting equipment for letters still
expects uppercase characters, I think. For the same reason, I and O
are outlawed from the last two positions, and it looks like C is
deprecated to avoid confusion with G, similarly U and V. M doesn't
seem to appear (N and/or W?), nor does K (?) in the list I have.

The Canadian system avoids several letters as well. Lossy memory says
I, O, Q, U, and Z. The first letter increases from east to west,
which allowed them to assign codes that had some mnemonic value.[1]
(The U.S. system, of course, uses just digits and a hyphen-like
character, but requires ten characters to do it.[2])

-GAWollman

[1] Also from that lossy memory, you have A in Newfoundland, on the
Atlantic; C in Prince Edward Island, whose capital is Charlottetown; K
for Ottawa, Canada's Capital; M for Toronto, the largest Metropolitan
area; S for Saskatchewan; V for British Columbia, whose largest city
is Vancouver and whose capital is Victoria.

[2] About the only aide-memoire that the ZIP code system provides is
that, in each sorting center, the original assignment of numbers was
made in alphabetical order by the name of the community or postal
district served. The original five-digit ZIP code was only supposed
to identify the post office, not individual carrier routes (for which
there are multiple systems in use depending on the class and volume of
mail originated by the sender). The nine-digit ZIP+4 code does
identify a carrier route, but not directly.
--
Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness
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