![]() Following so closely on the heels of a “perfect” number, some argue, that 13 was sure to be found lacking and unusual. Most calendars have 12 months a single day is comprised of two 12-hour half days, etc. The ancient Sumerians developed numeral system based on the use of 12 that is still used for measuring time today. Mathematicians and scientists, meanwhile, point to preeminence of the number 12, often considered a “perfect” number, in the ancient world. READ MORE: Friday the 13th: Origins and Superstitions Number 12: A 'Perfect' Number? ![]() In reality, the omission was no more than a clerical error made by one of the document’s earliest translators who failed to include a line of text-in fact, the code doesn’t numerically list its laws at all. But what’s so unlucky about the number 13, and how did this numerical superstition get started?Īn early myth surrounding the origin of the fear involved one of the world’s oldest legal documents, the Code of Hammurabi, which reportedly omitted a 13th law from its list of legal rules. population has a fear of the number 13, and each year the even more specific fear of Friday the 13th, known as paraskevidekatriaphobia, results in financial losses in excess of $800 million annually, as people avoid marrying, traveling or in the most severe cases, even working. ![]() Researchers estimate that as many as 10 percent of the U.S. ![]()
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