Walking and CNPS

[bugshaw]

I walked for an hour again today - I start with an errand or two but vary the route to make it longer. Today while walking I managed to find the next five numbers on my Compulsive Number Plate Stalking Consecutive Number Plate Spotting list - 203 to 207 - all in the few streets around Tenison Road/Sturton Street. I needed to double back a few times to respot numbers I'd noted earlier in the correct consecutive order, but I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to see so many in a day. Besides, I can pretend the extra walk is keeping me fit ;-)

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

It's certainly worth doubling back. If you just accept numbers as they appear, for each next number, you can expect to see 500 others first. To get through the entire sequence, you need to check about 500,000 plates.

Oh, hold on. That assumes all number plates follow the old CXXX CCC format, or its predecessors. Since the majority of vehicles now follow the new CCXX CCC format, you may well have to check 1,000,000 plates.

It's got to be one of the most tediously pointless memes around.

(Now, where's a 20?)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Ah, B20 MTX.

Funny how so many of the ones I've collected end in MTX. And that they've all belonged to Meltax.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only person doing this kind of thing :-)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

I'm currently trying to work out how long it's likely to take to get them all. And whether there will be any old format numbers left when I'm getting to the higher numbers.

On the other hand, one day a new civilisation will rise, and they will invent motor vehicles, and eventually those will have to have number plates.

Walking

[rhubarbfool.livejournal.com]

Just wondered if you knew about the walk through Mill Road cemetery which handily links Mill Road with Norfolk Street in a very pleasant manner?

Re: Walking

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I half know about it - in that I sometimes find my way in, but get lost for a while before exiting in a random direction ;-)

It's certainly handy for college.