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by wincy 1488 days ago
That sounds absurd. I can't believe a civilized society would exclude so many floors! In the US where we are completely reasonable and rational we only exclude the 13th floor. I used to work on the "14th floor" (actually floor 13) and I thought this was hilarious.
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In Thailand every 13th floor is named 12A. They’re not fooling anyone.
It might also be a trick on the building owner to make their building look taller. They also exclude the 13th, so that’s a total of 4 floors excluded, but it is only 30 stories, so they get to exclude 34 as well so the top floor is 35.
In China what happens on the 4th floor stays on the 4th floor.