thirteenth

Thanks to the noble efforts of the Clan of the White Lotus, these 3 functions originate during the late thirteenth century.

Interestingly, the Thirteenth Floor did a pretty good job of that overall premise (sims inside sims), but without the dystopian overtones.

So, once you've learned a dozen, then learning the thirteenth or the twentieth will not contribute greatly to your overall developer skills.

That's like saying it was not the Confederacy's fault for trying to stop the Thirteenth Amendment because it ruined their 'business model' too.

Just basic shlock-90s movie plot stuff in a way (see: The Thirteenth Floor, et al), but what if that's the basic nature of the universe(s)?

The thirteenth amendment to the US constitution is also restrictive.

Gadgets are great and all, but after the twelfth Samsung phone or the thirteenth camera phone of the day, Engadget's dry prose just gets to me.

Duns Scotus anticipated a lot of modern empiricism by a few hundred years; Roger Bacon was doing science (as a monk, no less) in the thirteenth century.

Maybe the Thirteenth too while you're at it.

In which case there is a significant issue because up until the thirteenth century they didn't have most spices - maybe pepper, some salt (expensive as), bay leaves, clove...

Made me think of Thirteenth Floor - the simulation doesn't need to happen until someone observes it Maybe we were written in a functional language with Lazy Evaluation.

Indeed, I think that one and The Thirteenth Floor are much better explorations of virtual (simulated) reality than, say, the superficial zen & mainstream action of The Matrix.

In Java the thirteenth month is "Undecimber".

The house of Gänsfleisch was one of the patrician families of the town, tracing its lineage back to the thirteenth century." Patricians (aristocrats) in Mainz were often named after houses they owned.

"The first instance in English of nurse occurred in the early thirteenth century as the Anglo-Norman nurice, derived from the fifth-century post-Classical Latin nutrice, a wet-nurse."

That's the basic idea behind Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead" (made into the film "The Thirteenth Warrior") except he uses it to explain the Grendel myth rather than trolls.