{"id":4478,"date":"2011-05-21T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2011-05-21T06:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T13:33:00","slug":"someone-cant-do-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4478","title":{"rendered":"Someone Can&#8217;t Do Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing my normal perusal of the papers this morning, reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-arcadia-numbers-20110521,0,6077634.story\" target=\"_blank\">an article about Arcadia (a city in Southern California) and the problem of selling homes with the number &#8220;4&#8221; in the address to Chinese<\/a>&#8230; when I run across the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are 20,000 homes in Arcadia. One in four has a number four in it. That&#8217;s a potential of 3,000 addresses that could be changed,&#8221; said Councilman Roger Chandler, who is against restarting the program [to allow people to change their house numbers].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How&#8217;s that again? If home numbers are distributed uniformly, then I would think the chance of having a four in the number should be closer to 1 in 10, although that might be skewed by the first digit. That would certainly increase the odds of the first digit being 1, and of course the odds of a zero are lower because we drop leading zeros in addresses. But for the number &#8220;four&#8221;, 1 in 4 seems far too low to me.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s suppose they are correct on the odds being 1 in 4. Then if there are 20,000 addressed, wouldn&#8217;t that be a potential of 5,000 addresses, as 5,000 x 4 = 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, I think this councilman doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing my normal perusal of the papers this morning, reading an article about Arcadia (a city in Southern California) and the problem of selling homes with the number &#8220;4&#8221; in the address to Chinese&#8230; when I run across the following: &#8220;There are 20,000 homes in Arcadia. One in four has a number four <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4478\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-4478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}