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Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-02 14:30:04
At 4:39 PM -0400 8/2/00, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:58:47PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote:
 > > - elevators (in the US) go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15...
 > >   they skip 13! Does this make 14 a prime number ? ;-)

 > No - it makes 26 a prime number.

        That's OK...  But in China, they skip "4".  (They really do).

Actually in the Far East there are 2, the Chinese skip 4 and the Koreans or Japanese skip something else. I have been in hotels in Korea where there 3 floor numbers missing which of course is prime as well! ;-)



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