Several successful sports figures have worn the number 13, says  a note on Chromium code base where they pushed the opensource version of Chrome to version 13.  They have a long list of interesting sports figures who uses number 13.
Chromium 13
I always doubted if Chrome will have version 13, considering that fact that 13 is considered to be unlucky. Well, I have a very bad feeling about number 13. I am very uncomfortable with that number. Superstitious, I know 
Here is the full text from the introduction of version 13.
LUCKY 13 : Several successful sports figures have worn the number 13. Ozzie Guillén, manager of the 2005 World Series Champion Chicago White Sox, has worn the number throughout his baseball career.
Alex Rodriguez began wearing it upon joining the New York Yankees (three, the number he had previously worn, is retired by the Bronx Bombers to honor Babe Ruth). Dan Marino, an American football player known for passing the 2nd most yards in NFL history, wore the number 13.
Basketball great Wilt Chamberlain wore the number 13 on his jersey throughout his NBA career. Also, FIBA rules require a player to wear the number in international competitions (only numbers from 4 to 15 could be worn, and as there are 12 players, one must wear 13); Chris Mullin, who wore #20 in college and #17 in the NBA, wore #13 for both (1984 and 1992) of his Olympic appearances. Shaquille O’Neal wore #13 in 1996; Tim Duncan wore #13 in 2004. Steve Nash is currently wearing it for the Phoenix Suns. Yao Ming wore it in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Mats Sundin, Pavel Datsyuk, Bill Guerin, and Michael Cammalleri wear 13 in the NHL. One of Iceland’s all time best handball players, Sigurður Sveinsson, wore the number 13 when he played for the national team. In association football, both Gerd Müller and Michael Ballack have favoured the number 13, among others. In Italy, 13 is also considered to be a lucky number, although in Campania the expression ‘tredici’ (meaning 13) is said when one considers their luck to have turned for the worse.
Colgate University also considers 13 to be a lucky number. They were founded in 1819 by 13 men with 13 dollars, 13 prayers and 13 articles.[5] (To this day, members of the Colgate community consider the number 13 a good omen.) In fact, the campus address is 13 Oak Drive in Hamilton, New York, and the male a cappella group is called the Colgate 13. In the Mayan Tzolk’in calender, trecenas mark cycles of 13 day periods. The pyramids are also set up in 9 steps divided into 7 days and 6 nights, 13 days total.
Do you think 13 is a bad number ?
13 equals Jesus plus the 12 apostles.
vow ! never thought of that ! thanks for sharing
any idea what features are planed for 13?
and what release date is planed? the 13th may?
I hope it wont be 13/13/2013 -> 13-01-2014
waiting for more stuff to be added to Chromium .. will post regularly !
Sorry for being a hobbyist number theorist, but as far as I can see we don’t like 13 because it is the second prime number which decimal doesn’t have a division rule for, making it difficult to handle. Weirdly, 7 is often considered as a lucky number, probably because it is a small enough prime to appear elemental.
Another thought I have is that throughout the history of Germanic (or certainly British) education, people have always learnt their times tables from 1 to 12, making 13 appear beyond the usual range. We learn up to twelve (traditionally) because the dozen was an important thing to know. It was 12d=1s, 12in = 1ft, and the dozen – being highly divisible – is ideal for packaging.
I presume the 12 times table is also learnt in Germany (or at least was) because German (like English) has distinct words for eleven = elf, twelve = zwölf and dozen = Dutzend, suggesting that they also had a semi-dozenal system. In fact, I’ve just had a look on Google Translate and most languages (even Latin and derivatives) have a word for “dozen” which is different to “twelve”. They all appear to be from a word similar to “dozen”, which in Old Germanic probably meant “two [and] ten” (“zhen” being German for “ten”).
Who learns the 12 times table now? I seem to think that it is being phased out of British primary schools. Is it learnt in India, or America, or Europe? Sorry for going off topic, I’ll stop there.
that was a lot of information !!! don’t ever feel sorry for sharing some interesting information
I am not good at maths, reading this again
I believe in Chinese feng-shui, and number 13 is never good. Well, at least for me
Mmm… well just take a look at the 1 US dollar… ¿how many 13s could you spot? (see awnser below..)
Of all the countries superstitious about number 13, the US takes first place. We do not find 13th floor, room no 13 anywhere, yet look at the repeated appearance of 13 number on the dollar bill.
13 stars above the eagle
13 steps on the Pyramid
13 letters in ANNUIT COEPTIS
13 letters in E PLURIBUS UNUM
13 vertical bars on the shield
13 horizontal stripes at the top of the shield
13 leaves on the olive branch
13 berries on the olive branch
13 arrows
In several cultures the number 13 is powerful and represents the beginning. May be the bill designers added all the mystic symbols on the dollar bill to make the currency a formidable one.
Taken from this site..
http://dukkipati.blogspot.com/2008/05/mystic-dollar-and-number-13.html
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