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Tweytoday at 1:04 AM3 repliesview on HN

ZIP+4? I think that's literally enough digits to give every house in the US (about 150,000,000 apparently) its own identifier.


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collingreentoday at 4:34 AM

Zip isn't uniformly distributed numbers though so you dont have the equivalent of that many digits of decimal numbers. Other comments have more detail but just for the top level example the first number is the zone and goes from 0 on the east coast to 9 on the west.

bombcartoday at 1:05 AM

Only if there's never more than 10,000 addresses in a single zip code, which means that if you enforce that, you can force a zip code to appear by building enough house

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kube-systemtoday at 1:55 AM

There are far more addresses than there are houses