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an unlucky number. At the Last Supper, the 13th per-
son to sit at the table was Judas, the disciple who
betrayed Jesus. For this reason, many buildings in
the US and Europe do not have a 13th floor, and
many hotels do not have rooms with the number 13.
More recently, some hotels are eliminating room 420
because this number is a code for smoking pot.
Bad luck numbers vary from culture to culture. In
Asia, four is considered unlucky because its pronun-
ciation is similar to the word for death. In Italy, seven-
teen is unlucky. The origin of this superstition has a
long history. If 17 is written in Roman numerals XVII,
the letters can be rearranged to create the Latin verb
VIXI which translates as “I have lived.” This associa-
tion