So, let’s say you have a room with 360 seats in it. They are all neatly arranged in 20 rows of 18 seats each with an aisle on each side but none in the middle. Your task is to assign row and seat numbers to them so as to facilitate sales of more desirable locations and prevent knife fights over the better seats. How would to go about doing so?
Well, if you worked in Budapest at the Mupa music center or anywhere else on earth you’d start by numbering the rows 1 through 20 with 1 being closest to the stage.
Now, for the tricky part of the puzzle. How do you number the chairs in each row? Simple you say, start at one side with #1 and designate each following chair until you reach the end of the row, which becomes #18.
But! No! Not if you worked at the Mupa in Budapest. There you’d start from each end of the row with #1 and move towards the middle where’d you have two #9s sitting next to each other.
I kid you not.
