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).
Because the idiogram for the number four sounds like "death", so it is for a
good reason. Number 13 is just unlucky.
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