Totally Random Question
Are there any buildings in the world which have a prime number of floors?
This thought occurred to me as I was studying the button layout in the elevator of my hotel. Interestingly enough, this building has a 13th floor, which most hotels (and I think probably most buildings) avoid. There are 20 floors in this building so the elevator buttons are neatly aligned in 5 rows and 4 columns. I started pondering elevator button arrangement and figured you could probably get an aesthetically pleasing elevator panel arrangement with just about any number of floors, unless of course you had a prime number of floors. Like what if you had 23 floors, how would you arrange the buttons? 3 rows of 6 and 1 row of 5? 5 rows of 4 and 1 row of 3? I'm sure you could fill in spaces with close and open door buttons, but that just gets confusing.
Yeah, clearly I'm a little bored at the moment :-P I'm just killing time till I can head to the airport. I think I'll go register for the new concierge service we're being offered. Now I can get someone to move my car, water my plants and make dentist appointments for me for 5 bucks an hour :-P
EDIT: More on the elevator button thing... I just remembered that there's something else unusual about this elevator. I'm on the 9th floor and it seems that this button is hiding. When I first got in the elevator, I had trouble locating the button for some reason. In two subsequent elevator trips, I asked other people to push the button for the 9th floor for me, both times they also had trouble locating the button. It seems that most people were searching for the button on the right side of the panel, when in fact it was located on the left side, first in its row. I'm thinking this must be a unique elevator button layout, it's giving folks all sorts of trouble.
This thought occurred to me as I was studying the button layout in the elevator of my hotel. Interestingly enough, this building has a 13th floor, which most hotels (and I think probably most buildings) avoid. There are 20 floors in this building so the elevator buttons are neatly aligned in 5 rows and 4 columns. I started pondering elevator button arrangement and figured you could probably get an aesthetically pleasing elevator panel arrangement with just about any number of floors, unless of course you had a prime number of floors. Like what if you had 23 floors, how would you arrange the buttons? 3 rows of 6 and 1 row of 5? 5 rows of 4 and 1 row of 3? I'm sure you could fill in spaces with close and open door buttons, but that just gets confusing.
Yeah, clearly I'm a little bored at the moment :-P I'm just killing time till I can head to the airport. I think I'll go register for the new concierge service we're being offered. Now I can get someone to move my car, water my plants and make dentist appointments for me for 5 bucks an hour :-P
EDIT: More on the elevator button thing... I just remembered that there's something else unusual about this elevator. I'm on the 9th floor and it seems that this button is hiding. When I first got in the elevator, I had trouble locating the button for some reason. In two subsequent elevator trips, I asked other people to push the button for the 9th floor for me, both times they also had trouble locating the button. It seems that most people were searching for the button on the right side of the panel, when in fact it was located on the left side, first in its row. I'm thinking this must be a unique elevator button layout, it's giving folks all sorts of trouble.