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[was_tansu_now_badhedgehog]

I don't get US street numbering. How can a street with 15 houses on it have numbering that runs from 8100 to 8182? It starts in the wrong place and finishes in the wrong place. It is incorrect not only in startpoint, but in range.

Why aren't the houses numbered from 1 to 15?

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[montrealais.livejournal.com]

The only other thing I can think of is that often a large building that might occupy any of a number of addresses chooses the "roundest" number (often 1, 2, or a multiple of 5, 10, 100, or 1000.)