Every street in Canada is assigned a postal code. A postal code is made up of 3 letters and 3 digits that alternate. How many different postal codes can be created given the following conditions? Consider that a postal code is just a choice of first letter, first number, second letter, second number, third letter, and third number. So, the number of postal codes with no restrictions is the number of ways of choosing the first letter, multiplied by the number of ways of choosing the first number, multiplied by etc.
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A brief history of the postcode How does the modern postcode system work? Postcodes, not just for post Alternatives to postcodes: the geography of government. More about postcodes: Postcode-to-postcode journey planning Postcodes give us a great key around which to plan travel, but for fleet or salesforce planning the calculations can be staggering.
The geography of government How administrative geography has developed, how it works and how it compares to postcode geography. The power of postcode sectors Grouping postcodes together into areas is a powerful geographic analysis tool but isn't as easy as you might think. A brief history of the humble postcode: When and why were postcodes introduced? After Mail volumes grow.
A postcode system was needed to facilitate automated sorting. Early s: The Royal Mail starts a mechanisation program to introduce reliable mechanical sorting. Sorting machines needed the address to be machine-readable, so a code system was developed from the Norwich trials.
Norwich is the last place to be re-coded. How does the modern UK postcode system work? District: One or two alphanumeric characters subdividing the area.
Inward code Sector: 5: One numeric character subdividing the district. Unit: QW: Two alpha characters showing a group of buildings, a street, part of a street or a single delivery point. Largest size IV, Inverness 6, square miles. Average size square miles. Smallest population ZE, Shetland 22, people. Largest population B, Birmingham 2 million people. Average population , Smallest number of districts in an area ZE, Shetland 3. Largest number of districts in an area BT, Belfast Average number of districts in an area Largest size is IV27, 1, square miles.
Average size 33 square miles. Smallest population UB11, West Drayton Largest population CR 0, Croydon , Average population 23, Smallest size EC3A 1, London, less than 0. For example 0 can be transformed into a 2 digit code in 10 ways. Likewise 1 can be transformed into a 2 digit code in 10 ways. Each of the one-hundred 2 digit codes can be transformed into a 3 digit code by appending a third digit. In Canada where I live our postal codes have a different structure.
They are letter, digit, letter space digit, letter, digit. With this structure there are 26 choices for the first character, 10 choices for the second character, 26 choices for the third character and so on.
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