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APART FROM its widespread


appearance in popular songs
due to rock‘n’roll singers’ apparent
obsession with teenage girls, 17 in
itself is not a number that has lent
itself easily to the development or
culture of mankind. In fact, it has
been shown to be the epitome of
randomness. Studies have shown
that if you ask people to pick a
number between 0 and 20, 17 will

come up more often than any
other. Because of this it is called a
‘psychologically random’ number,
a number that is perceived as being
more random than others. Because
we see even numbers and
multiples of 5 as having some
pattern to them, numbers ending
in 1, 3, 7 or 9 are often psychologically
random, especially if they
are prime numbers too.

 

--The Book of Numbers

 

Also... In Italy 17 is regarded with fear. In Roman numerals it is XVII, and
anagram of which is Vixi, which means I am dead. Tenuous as this
may seem, it was enough for Renault to change the name of its R17
to R117 in Italy. And just as many buildings skip the 13th floor,
Italian buildings skip the 17th, and some airliners have no row 17.

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1 hour ago, Logan.1179 said:

 

 

 

--The Book of Numbers

 

Also... In Italy 17 is regarded with fear. In Roman numerals it is XVII, and
anagram of which is Vixi, which means I am dead. Tenuous as this
may seem, it was enough for Renault to change the name of its R17
to R117 in Italy. And just as many buildings skip the 13th floor,
Italian buildings skip the 17th, and some airliners have no row 17.

 

Asian building skip the fourth floor.  There's a building here that's like that. 

 

At my last job I worked on the 14th floor of the building, which I was fond of pointing out was actually the 13th floor.  It went well with the ghost stories.

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