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Unlucky Floors

Monday, March 3, 2025

The numbering system of floors in buildings is often overcomplicated. Do numbers really bring bad luck?

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MANY people dislike complexity, although complexity does not necessarily always lack meaning or explanation.

In the skyscrapers of Tokyo or Singapore, floors are numbered with the number 1 for the lowest floor, often reaching the twenties or thirties for the highest floor. Floors below level 1 are written as B (basement). B1 means one floor below floor 1, B2 is below B1, and so on. With this numbering system, we can imagine the height of a

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