At 3:40 PM +0800 8/3/00, Hans E. Kristiansen 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).
Because the idiogram for the number four sounds like "death", so it is for a
good reason. Number 13 is just unlucky.
Ahhh, right. Thanks for putting a scientific view on the subject. ;-)