SCIENCE OF EIGHT
A marvel among miracles - "The Eighth Wonder of the World" arousing global admiration.
8 is also a number used to write numbers in different systems, like in the decimal and hexadecimal number system. Investing rule in the decimal system; the condition of dividing the number by 8 defines that the last three digits are divisible by 8.
In chemistry, the atomic number of oxygen is, of course, 8 a strange "coincidence" that it is this element that is the source and supplier of all life on the entire planet of earth.
Not to mention that 88 is the atomic number of Rad and ain’t that like totally Radical Dude? C’mon! Innit?
The caduceus is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology and consequently by Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. It is a short staff entwined by two serpents that unmistakably look like a couple eights on top of each other.
There are eight types of Vitamin B (B 1 B 2 B 3 B 5 B 6 B 7 B 9 B 12) which is a very notable one from the group of water-soluble vitamins and extremely important for the metabolism of cells. Each B vitamin is either a cofactor (generally a coenzyme) for key metabolic processes or is a precursor needed to make one.
Mathematically Speaking...
| Cardinal | eight |
|---|---|
| Ordinal | 8th (eighth) |
| Numeral system | octal |
| Factorization | 2 3 |
| Divisors | 1, 2, 4, |
| Greek numeral | Η´ |
| Roman numeral | VIII |
| Roman numeral (unicode) | Ⅷ, ⅷ |
| Greek prefix | octa- / oct- |
| Latin prefix | octo- / oct- |
| Binary | 1000 2 |
| Ternary | 22 3 |
| Quaternary | 20 4 |
| Quinary | 13 5 |
| Senary | 12 6 |
| Octal | 10 8 |
| Duodecimal | 8 12 |
| Hexadecimal | 8 16 |
| Vigesimal | 8 20 |
| Base 36 | 8 36 |
| Greek | η (or Η) |
|---|---|
| Arabic & Kurdish | ٨ |
| Urdu |
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| Amharic | ፰ |
| Bengali | ৮ |
| Chinese numeral | 八,捌 |
| Devanāgarī | ८ |
| Kannada | ೮ |
| Telugu | ౮ |
| Tamil | ௮ |
| Hebrew | ח |
| Khmer | ៨ |
| Korean | 팔 |
| Thai | ๘ |
| Armenian | Ը ը |
their interiority gives life.”
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