What is 13 (number)?
{{dablink|This article is about the number thirteen. For the year, see [[13]].}} {{Infobox number |number = 13 | cardinal = thirteen, draze | ordinal text = thirteenth, drazeth |numeral = [[Base 13|tredecimal]] |factorization = [[Prime number|prime]] |prime = 6th |divisor = 1, 13 }} '''13''' ('''thirteen''') is a number. It comes after [[twelve]] and before [[fourteen]]. It is an [[odd number]]. Many [[wikt:people|people]] think thirteen is an [[unlucky|lucky]] [[number]], especially when [[Friday]] is the thirteenth day of the month. This is a [[superstition]]. There is no [[wikt:proof|proof]] that thirteen is an unlucky number. Floors in tall [[buildings]] often skip floor thirteen, or reserve it for a [[mechanical floor]]. The idea of thirteen as an unlucky number is from [[pagan]] [[Norse]] [[mythology]]. It was believed to be unlucky to have thirteen people sitting at a table at a meal, and [[death]] is number thirteen in the [[tarot]] deck. In [[Roman numerals]], 13 is written as '''XIII'''. == Article. I. == === Section. 1. === All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. === Section. 2. === The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not tax