User:Tongs/Hashlunch

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Douglas Adams wrote in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: "The History of every major Galactic Civilisation tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterised by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?". Geohashing can help. F and B suggested devising a list of pubs, restaurants, cafés, picnic spots, places we'd like to go for lunch in Cambridge of length 2n for some positive integer n. Assign a unique number between 0 and 2n-1 to each, and use the first n bits of that day's hash to decide where to go for lunch.

The inclusion criteria are:

  • It must be in Cambridge.
  • It must be a place that everyone wants to go back to (Two or more stars out of three).
  • It must serve at least one vegetarian option.

n = 5

Leading bits Restaurant or Pub Type of Food
00000 Aromi, 1 Bene’t Street Sicilian
00001 Bibimbap, 60 Mill Road Korean
00002 Prana Indian Restaurant, 97 Mill Road Indian Restaurant and Takeaway Cambridge
00010 The Box Café, 47 Norfolk Street Turkish and Italian
00011 The Cambridge Blue, 85-87 Gwydir Street Pub
00100 The Castle Inn, 38 Castle Street Pub
00110 CB2 Bistro, 5-7 Norfolk Street Bistro
00111 The Clarendon Arms, 35-36 Clarendon Street Pub
01000 Clown's, 54 King Street Italian
01001 Curry King, 5 Jordan's Yard Indian
01010 De Luca Cucina, 83 Regent Street Italian
01011 The Eagle, Bene't Street Pub
01100 Efe's, 80 King Street Turkish
01101 The Free Press, 7 Prospect Row Pub
01110 The Geldart, 1 Ainsworth Street Pub
01111 HK Fusion, 21 Burleigh Street or 12 St Johns Street Cantonese
10000 India House, 31 Newnham Road Indian
10001 Japas, 9 Saxon Street Japanese
10010 The Kingston Arms, 33 Kingston Street Pub
10011 Kymmoy, 11 Burleigh Street Chinese
10100 Mai Thai, Hobbs Pavilion Thai
10101 The Mill, 47 Mill Lane Pub
10110 Navadanya, 73 Newmarket Road Indian
10111 The Pickerel, 30 Magdelene Street Pub
11000 Rainbow Cafe, 9a King's Parade Vegetarian
11001 Sesame, 17 Hills Road Chinese
11010 Stickybeaks, 42 Hobson Street Café
11011 Taj Tandoori, 64 Cherry Hinton Road Indian
11100 Tulip, 54 Mill Road Turkish
11101 Yim Wah Express, 2-4 Lensfield Road Chinese
11110 Yo! Sushi, 1-2 Petty Cury Japanese Conveyor Belt
11111 Zhonghua Traditional Snacks, 13 Norfolk Street Chinese