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by OnionBlender 2695 days 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

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In the future we might have array libraries that provide arrays that don't have the 4th element.
That's preposterous, they should just throw an UnluckyIndexAccessException depending on the host's locale.
But only after the software is in production, at some random time.