• Hamartia
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        When you have eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be true

        We are all in room 239 together.

    • Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca
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      There is most likely no room 239. There is no rule that says that hotels need to use every number sequentially. It’s split up into different wings.

      Its probably listed in the order that you will see the hotel rooms if you walk down those halls from this spot.

      The arrows are on angles because you probably need to walk up or down a few stairs to get to certain wings of rooms.

      This sign is pretty straightforward.

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    I can handle the different directions, but the order of the ranges, with the larger number sometimes being on the left and sometimes the right, is what really messes with me.

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      My guess is numbers on the left are the ones you’ll pass first going that direction.

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    This seems pretty logical. Most likely you’re on the 2nd floor and it’s a split level building. 3rd and 4th floor rooms are upstairs, hence the line going up. Part of the 2nd floor rooms are on your same physical level to the left, and then the other part is down a bit to your right. It’s also possible you’re standing right in from of 239, so it wouldn’t be on the sign. Or the x39 rooms don’t exist because of numbering when the sections were built out.

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    My guess is it’s some very old building that has been added on to over hundreds of years, and everything made sense at each step of the process.

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      This sign was clearly made all at once and not added to. They could have at a bare minimum put the ranges in order

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        I mean, I see why they did it this way. Off camera to the right is a set of stairs. Go up to get to some rooms, go down to get to others. That’s why the arrows have a slight slant to them. It makes more sense to have the arrow pointing down to be on bottom, and the arrow pointing up to be on top.

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          that doesn’t excuse the order of the first two lines both vertically and horizontally

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            That’s the order that the units are in. Why would you put further units first?

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.ca
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    This reminds me of the hospital where my kids were born. It needed to grow in a crowded college campus area, and so it absorbed adjacent buildings into itself in one giant katamari. So you often do see ramps going up or down in the middle of a hallway because the floors didn’t quite line up, as well as the occasional brick wall or windows of what used to be an exterior wall in the middle of the building.