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The cultural atlas

4

4

The number East Asian buildings skip

卦China, Japan, Korea

Four is avoided across much of East Asia because 四 (four) is near-homophonous with 死 (death). The avoidance is not abstract: floor numbering routinely omits it, exactly as many Western buildings omit the thirteenth.

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Sources
  • Tetraphobia: 四/死 homophony; floor-numbering omissions documented across East Asia.
  • Parallel: Western 13th-floor omissions.

!Cultural interest — does not change your odds.

The reality check

What the machines actually did with 4, across every lottery this site holds a long record for.

  1. 🇺🇸Powerball97of 103 expected−0.57σ
  2. 🇬🇧UK Lotto116of 119 expected−0.34σ
  3. 🇪🇺EuroMillions93of 104 expected−1.17σ
  4. 🇮🇹SuperEnalotto146of 161 expected−1.22σ
  5. 🇦🇺Set for Life381of 378 expected+0.17σ

Across 5 lotteries that hold a 4, its average deviation from expectation is −0.62σ. Statistically ordinary, everywhere.

The one thing a belief about a number can measurably do is change how many people play it — and a jackpot shared more ways is worth less to each winner. That is the only real consequence, and it is arithmetic rather than folklore.

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