Talk:8 (number)

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Please? What does "Eight maids a milking" refer to? (Answer by editing the article :) Cimon Avaro on a pogo stick 04:54 6 Jun 2003 (UTC)


"Eight maids a-milking" is the gift on the eighth day of Christmas in the story A Christmas Carol.


Uh, I don't know about you, but I certainly don't remember someone giving someone a present of eight milkmaids in Charles' Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"! Unless someone can convince me it was really in there, I'm going to keep this change reverted. Wiwaxia 15:12, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC)

"Eight Maids a Milking" has NOTHING to do with "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. This is a verse in the song "Twelve Days of Christmas". [DanaR Bob]

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[edit] Sphenic Numbers?

That sphenic numbers have 8 divisors is a trivial consequence of the definition and the fact that 2³=8. It doesn't really say anything interesting about the number 8. Maybe it ought to be removed. Sigfpe 00:34, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Information from Talk:Octopus about prefixes for 8

Go to Talk:Octopus and look at a section that says "Greek or Latin" that talks about the prefixes for 8. 66.245.102.91 15:14, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] "*In particle physics, the eightfold way is used to classify sub-atomic particles."

Eightfold Way links to some article about Buddhism. What has it to do with particle physics? If anything, then an explanation should be added.

[edit] Eight-bit systems

There are plenty of these, not just Nintendo. 4pq1injbok 03:09, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, and their all pretty much history now. Once they get past 64-bit systems, I wonder if they'll say 128-bit or invent some new term to keep it breif. Numerao 16:56, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Folklore

Numbers are extremely important in a good deal of mythology, folklore and religion. I'm not sure what one word to use to describe this without overdramatizing or insulting anyone, so I used all three. If someone has a better one to use, go ahead. Either way, I think that they deserve their own section easily as much as technology. I'll be going ahead and doing this with the rest of the numbers. So I should be done never, because numbers are infinite. Ha ha. Oh, that was funny. Anyway, I'll be addressing the other eight single digit numbers at least. 204.69.40.7 15:27, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 10008 ???

The SI prefix for 10008 is yotta (Y), and for its reciprocal yocto (y)

Isn't this stretching a bit? It's true, but I've never before seen the use of 1000 for the base of SI units. The more traditional definition of yotta is 1024, which makes me think this belongs on the page for 24. I'm removing it, but if someone has a good reason for it being there, please put it back and add a response to indicate why. Thanks Bmearns 20:32, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This just transferred from 8

[edit] Superstition

The number eight is lucky to the Chinese as its pronounciation "Ba" is similar to that of "Fa", which means to make a fortune or produce wealth. For this reason, the number eight is very auspicious and is regarded highly among Chinese people.

"88" is also somewhat notorious as it was terminology used by the Aryan Brotherhood, H being the eighth letter of the alphabet, and being repeated twice is HH, for "Hail Hitler"

Rich Farmbrough 20:57 15 June 2006 (GMT).

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