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A luckynumber is a natural number in a set which is generated by a "sieve" similar to the Sieve of Eratosthenes that generates the primes.
He named them "lucky" because of a connection with a story told by the historian Josephus.
Luckynumbers share some properties with primes, such as asymptotic behaviour according to the primenumber theorem; also Goldbach's conjecture has been extended to them.
Thus they consider 13 to be their "lucky"number as it is the opposite of 13 being the "unlucky" number.
The number is also considered unlucky by some as it is the sum of 1-4-5-3, the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire, though it may be considered lucky by Turks, on the same basis!
Besides being the number of people sitting at the Last Supper, it's also the number of Gods (there were 12) at a banquet that was crashed by the evil spirit Loki (making 13) who killed one of the guests with a poison arrow.
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