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In the states it's quite common to number the floors of a building by avoiding the number 13. I think this is pure madness. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15... All of that because of a fantasy book where people had supper and they happen to be 13 at the table. Edit: Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_(number)#/media/File:Many_b...
In the states it's quite common to number the floors of a building by avoiding the number 13. I think this is pure madness. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15... All of that because of a fantasy book where people had supper and they happen to be 13 at the table. Edit: Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_(number)#/media/File:Many_b...
The same on planes. There is never (I've never seen it anyway) row #13. It goes straight from row #12 to #14.
Years ago they also had a pretty cool security demonstration in which they lighted up the emergency lighting.
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Very interesting work! Just a quick note, for this kind of evenly spaced, discrete X data, stairs plots are usually better. For instance this highlights better the 13th floor issue, which in the line plot was obscured: https://i.imgur.com/cSjT5xx.png
Monty from xiph.org learned me that: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml @ 5:57
Another funny old news about superstition is that a public research institute located in Hong Kong Science Park used HK$180,000 (~USD $23,000) on fung shui consultation[1]. [1]: https://www.scmp.com/article/595459/value-money
You’d love the HSBC building in Hong Kong. HSBC own a large open space immediately in front of the building purely because its good feng shui to have an open view of the water [1]. It’s a completely open space in the most premium area of down town Hong Kong island, right next to the ferry terminal. It must be worth so much money. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Building_(Hong_Kong)#Feng...
Floors:...11,12,15,16....33,35,36,37,38,39,50,51,52,53,55...
Units: 1,2,3,5,6,7...
Its a bit surprising to see this. I thought they go for using '3B' instead of an outright '4'
I only include integer floors in this analysis, but there very few flats with regex \d\w. Or you're surprised there are 4s at all?
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Very interesting work! Just a quick note, for this kind of evenly spaced, discrete X data, stairs plots are usually better. For instance this highlights better the 13th floor issue, which in the line plot was obscured: https://i.imgur.com/cSjT5xx.png
I agree that a stepped line graph is better that a line graph, but since the data is discrete and not continuous a lollipop chart or maybe a bar chart would convey it better. Monty from xiph.org learned me that: https://xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml @ 5:57
In the states it's quite common to number the floors of a building by avoiding the number 13. I think this is pure madness. 10, 11, 12, 14, 15... All of that because of a fantasy book where people had supper and they happen to be 13 at the table. Edit: Here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_(number)#/media/File:Many_b...
Your link doesn't state that. It mentions the last supper as a potential but unlikely origin of 13 as an unlucky number.
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The same on planes. There is never (I've never seen it anyway) row #13. It goes straight from row #12 to #14.
Qantas to the rescue of all that is rational. https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/Qantas_Airways/Qantas_Airw...
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