Re: Heard at the IETF

[John Day]

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.  ;-)