Re: Heard at the IETF

[Hans E. Kristiansen]

> 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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