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Exactly what is happening with planes. I'm still astonished every time I get into one and see the missing row 13. It's so ridiculous...

• OnionBlender 8y ago
  Some buildings don't have any floors labeled with a 4 because it is unlucky in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology#Four https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numerology#Four
  • sampo 8y ago
    In the future we might have array libraries that provide arrays that don't have the 4th element.
    • alboy 8y ago
      That's preposterous, they should just throw an UnluckyIndexAccessException depending on the host's locale.
      • randomdata 8y ago
        But only after the software is in production, at some random time.
• Krasnol 8y ago
  Especially if you are superstitious and sit in row 14, you must know that this is actually row 13 undercover!
  • gerbilly 8y ago
    Don't forget to also avoid row 12 just to be sure! They could have counted the seats from zero, but labelled them from 1.
    • dwighttk 8y ago
      Most planes I’ve noticed start at like row 4
• tim333 8y ago
  They should compensate by having two row 8s, row 8.8 and row 8.88 to keep the Chinese happy.