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You may not notice in everyday life when a building you walk into is constructed of words and numbers in addition to bricks and mortar. Consider the composition of One Burrard Place, a condominium in Vancouver. It was described as a 60-story building, but it contains only 54 physical floors. Its developers, in an effort to appeal to prospective residents from Chinese cultures where digits containing the number four—which sounds similar to the word for “death” in many East Asian languages—might be considered less desirable, skipped past floors in the building’s floor count ending in four. The developers also omitted a number considered undesirable in western culture, floor number 13. While the building was under construction in 2015, the city banned developers from omitting any floor numbers from their buildings, after fire safety concerns were raised about the potential confusion introduced by such alternative labeling schemes.1 The plan for a condominium proposed for construction in M

Addressable Space Web - Summer of Protocols Skip to content Addressable Space Web Josh Davis 2024-01-31T00:48:22+00:00 Addressable Space Chenoe Hart 1. Hidden Floors You may not notice in everyday life when a building you walk into is constructed of words and numbers in addition to bricks and mortar. Consider the composition of One Burrard Place, a condominium in Vancouver. It was described as a 60-story building, but it contains only 54 physical floors. Its developers, in an effort to appeal to prospective residents from Chinese cultures where digits containing the number four—which sounds si

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