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June 23, 2003

Divison Street
Posted by Jess in Geek Humor

One of the reasons I always wanted a digital camera was for those times you always say, "Geez, I wish I had a camera right now!"

Lucky for me, the one Matt chose is small enough for me to carry on with me at all times. This little gem is something I've wanted a picture of since we came to Rhode Island.

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So what's so special about Division street? The fact that there are two exits for it? You can also make your own "signs" on the web.... Ned B had this link a few weeks ago and it's pretty kewl... http://www.kurumi.com/roads/signmaker/signmaker.html

Posted by: Ed Brill at June 24, 2003 04:00 PM

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Must be a bad picture (well, we were going ~75 at the time).

The exit 8A and B have a division sign instead of a dash between them... and it's reflective, meaning it was done at the time the sign was manufactured. :-)

Posted by: Jess at June 24, 2003 04:05 PM

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It shows just fine in the picture - probably just another case of seeing what one expects to see. It makes no sense, though, unless there were signs further upstream giving the values for A and B. Does your state allow floating-point interchanges? See what happens in a slowish economy -- people who are capable of committing mathematical puns wind up painting road signs....

Posted by: Stan Rogers at June 24, 2003 07:27 PM

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The state used to allow it, but ran into too many runtime violations. :-)

Posted by: Jess at June 24, 2003 10:01 PM

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ok, now i get it. too subtle for me ...doh

Posted by: Ed Brill at June 25, 2003 12:22 PM

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where IS that sign??

Posted by: Jim S at July 8, 2003 09:30 AM

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The sign is on Rt. 4 in Rhode Island about 1/2 mile before merging with 95N.

I'm always surprised at the amount of RI'ers that have never noticed it!

Jess :-)

Posted by: Jess at July 8, 2003 06:40 PM

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