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Eight redirects here. This article is relating to number 8. For the year, to see 8.

8 ( eight ) is the Entier naturalness according to 7 and preceding 9.

The Préfixe of the international system for 1000⁸ is Yotta (Y), and for its reverse Yocto (there).

Evolution of the glyphe

At the beginning, various groups in India more or less wrote 8 in a curved feature which resembled a capital letter H with the low half of the left line and the high half of the straight line removed. One moment, this Glyphe resembled our 5 modern. Then, with the Arab S Western Ghubar, the resemblance of the glyphe to 5 was removed by connecting the departure with the end of the feature, and it did not remain any more but with the Européens the care to round the glyphe, which led to our 8 modern.

Current C-Ws communication

The C-W communication “8” is not only used in the world; a certain number of Alphabet S - particularly those of the languages of the Indian sub-continent and South-East Asia - use different C-Ws communication.

In mathematics

8 is a made up Nombre, its Diviseur S clean are 1, 2, and 4. It is a Puissance of two 2³, or 2 high with the cube, it is also the third powerful Nombre.

8 is the base of the octal Système, which is mainly used with the Ordinateur S. Into octal, a figure accounts for three bits. In data processing, a group of 8 Bit S constitutes a Octet.

Number 8 is a number of Fibonacci, it is the nap of 3 more 5. The number of following Fibonacci is 13.

A Polygon of eight east coasts an Octogonal . The illustrated numbers representing the octagones (including eight) are called octagonal numbers. A Polyèdre of eight faces is a Octaèdre. The illustrated numbers representing octahedral are called octahedral numbers.

The sphenic numbers have eight dividers always exactly.

It is a hexagonal pyramidal Nombre.

In numbering system

In other fields

historical Years: -8, 8, or 1908.
8 is a film of fiction, joining together eight short films, and treating Objectifs millenium for the development.
the number of points on the cross of the Order of Malta, supposed to represent the eight Blisses of the Catholic Church .
the Atomic number of the Oxygen, a Non-metal.
the magic second Number (physical).
Since August 2006, there exists officially eight Planet S in our solar system.
Eight (八, formal writing 捌, Pinyin ba1) is regarded as a lucky Nombre in the Chinese Culture because it sounds like the word “prosperity” (發 Pinyin fa1).
the number of Vitamine S in the group B.
Eight babies born unit at the same moment are called Octuplés. The first eightfold ones to have survived are the Louis-Chukwu, born in 1998.
All the Spider S, and more generally all the Arachnida S, have eight legs.
a Pieuvre has eight tentacles.
Timothy Leary identified a hierarchy of eight levels of conscience.
the Roue of the life has eight rays.
Eight should not be marked by a magus of the Disc-world in a not protected zone. It is also the number of Beautiful-Shamharoth, a probable inhabitant of the Basse-Fosse.
the octarine is the eighth color of the solar spectrum of the intervertebral discs.
the octidi is eighth the one week day of the intervertebral discs.

October was the eighth month in the ancient Roman calendar. Nowadays, the eighth month is August.

While referring to the shape of the figure, eight was called in the slang of the Bingo, before the correct Politiquement, “a large woman”. Eighty eights were called “Two large women”.

Eight is the number of categories of the Système VALLEYS used to classify the groups of consumers, and the number of categories used by the system of Fallon-McElligott for marketing of the banked-up beds.

In English, the figure “8” is sometimes used in writing to represent the syllable “ate”, as by writing “H8” for “haste” (to hate), or “let us congratul8ons” for “congratulations” (congratulations). The song of Avril Lavigne “Sk8er Boi” uses this convention in the title.

Eight Principles of Yǒng, in Chinese penmanship.

War of the eight princes

the number of years of Marriage of the weddings of Poppy.

In music, an octave is an interval of 6 tons, which gives the same note of a frequency twice higher.

There exist eight musicians in a Octuor.

the number of the French Department of the the Ardennes.

the number of the French highway A8 which starts from the Fare-the-Olive-trees to reach the Italy. It is called of Provence the .

One of the figures (2nd) of the enigmatic continuation of figures of the series Lost.

In numerology, the 8 represents the material Expansion .

the symbol for the Infini one eight is reversed: $\ infty \,$ .

Sports

With the Olympic Games of summer of 2008, number 8 will be with the honor. The opening ceremony will start at 8 a.m. 8 minutes 8 seconds of the evening, local time, on August 8th, 2008 (08-08-08 08:08: 08, the eight being a symbol of prosperity and infinite in the Chinese culture).
the eight is a geometrical Forme , often used in the sports, such as the skate.
ball 8 of the American Billard is most important. The balls number 8 are often sold like material of prediction.
With the Baseball, eight represents the position of the Center fielder.
With the failures, the chess-board consists of 8 X 8 boxes and each camp has eight pawns; to also see Puzzle of the eight queens
In Oar, it is the name of the boat which solicits 8 oarsmen and a cox.
In Rugby, it is the number of the third line centers.

See too

eight|eight

Morse code in which figure 8 is worth “ ---**”
Combination of figure-letter starting with 8:

8a 8b 8c 8d 8th 8f 8g 8:00 8i 8j 8k 8l 8m 8n 8o 8p 8q 8r 8s 8t 8u 8v 8w 8x 8y 8z
8A 8B 8C 8D 8th 8F 8G 8:00 8I 8J 8K 8L 8M 8N 8O 8P 8Q 8R 8S 8T 8U 8V 8W 8X 8Y 8Z

External bonds

Almanac and dictionary of the numbers (site of Gerard Villemin)

Zh-yue: 8

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