General Knowledgespeaking topic
In Japan the numbers 4 and 9 are considered unlucky because they sound like the words for 'death' and 'suffering'; many hospitals have no fourth floor. A number's badness has nothing to do with mathematics, only with sound in that language. If numbers are supposed to be universal, why does fear of a number change from culture to culture?
— cultural numerology, homophones and taboo
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