Re: Heard at the IETF

[John Day]

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!  ;-)