tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068183698747623113.post7020322269992938670..comments2023-10-29T10:40:34.638-04:00Comments on A CS Professor's blog: How to number offices?Claire Mathieuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10957755706440077623noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068183698747623113.post-47168747399364605652011-08-31T10:58:56.809-04:002011-08-31T10:58:56.809-04:00I think that a good hint is the way in which large...I think that a good hint is the way in which large parking garages label their spaces. Usually: 1. Which floor, 2. some color code dividing the floor into compact areas, 3. linear number within that color class.<br /><br />Simple and easy to memorize.Claire Mathieuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10957755706440077623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068183698747623113.post-18702701282390127092011-08-31T09:32:04.501-04:002011-08-31T09:32:04.501-04:00Two dimensional lay-out call for more than one dim...Two dimensional lay-out call for more than one dimensional labeling. I like Claire's proposal, but would rather proposed the scheme FLOOR-RING-AISLE-NUMBER, and choosing a distinct labeling for each dimension. The distinct labeling scheme is optional, but relieves from the order constraint of the dimensions.<br /><br />As an example, in a building with 7 floors {A,B,C,D,E,F,G}, 4 aisles {N,W,S,E}, 3 rings in each floor {$\alpha,\beta,\gamma$}, and at most 10 rooms [1..10] in each, my current office (303) would be $CS\alpha3$.<br /><br />Of course, in less than 10 years time we will either have all digital classes, or every room will have a unique digital identifier, and people will be guided to it using their digital assistant.dothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14825435867493579983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068183698747623113.post-38349783829972611172011-08-30T15:27:50.809-04:002011-08-30T15:27:50.809-04:00At lunch I suggested pre-fixing the room number by...At lunch I suggested pre-fixing the room number by the geographic direction: N,S,E,W. In fact, why should rooms have numbers if a linear order does not correspond to the physical layout? Why not have the description mirror the natural language description?<br /><br />"Go to the 4th floor, take the hallway going North, go right, and it's the second door to your right"<br />= 4Nr2Claire Mathieuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10957755706440077623noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4068183698747623113.post-56981863842488421702011-08-30T15:09:18.545-04:002011-08-30T15:09:18.545-04:00Evans Hall, at Berkeley, can be similarly describe...Evans Hall, at Berkeley, can be similarly described. Odd-numbered rooms are around the edges of the building; even-numbered rooms are on the inside. For the most part this solves the problem, except that 301 and 399 are next to each other.<br /><br />However, this creates a new problem. My office (on the outside of the building) is 325; there's a classroom, on the inside of the building, numbered 330. 330 does <i>not</i> face 329 or 331 (which are a couple doors down from me, as you'd expect). So this time of year there's a parade of students in my corner of the building who can't find their classroom, see my door open, and ask me where the room is.Michael Lugohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01950197848369071260noreply@blogger.com