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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) by ssss11 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @05:45AM (#24928729)
Apparently there’s no more than 999,999 unique residences?
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) by Tuna-Fish on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:10AM (#24930622)
Singapore is a city-state on an island that is ~40x20 km in size. If you divided that rectangle evenly to a million plots, you'd end up squares that have ~30m sides. And that's before you consider that the island is not square, and that there are roads, airports, parks and things like that.

No, there are not anywhere near a million unique buildings. Instead, there are ~9000 high-rises.

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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) by flemhans on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:14AM (#24939885)
1,000,000 if the code 000000 counts
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) by nottorp on Thursday October 29, 2020 @07:17AM (#24929266)
You are assuming all post codes have the same length by any chance? :)
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Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses (2013) by howlgarnish on Thursday October 29, 2020 @09:39AM (#24930324)
In Singapore they're always 6 digits.
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