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8 (number)

← 7 8 9 →
−1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Cardinal eight
Ordinal 8th
(eighth)
Numeral system octal
Factorization 23
Divisors 1, 2, 4, 8
Roman numeral VIII
Roman numeral (unicode) Ⅷ, ⅷ
Greek prefix /
Latin prefix /
Binary 10002
Ternary 223
Quaternary 204
Quinary 135
Senary 126
Octal 108
Duodecimal 812
Hexadecimal 816
Vigesimal 820
Base 36 836
Greek η (or Η)
Arabic & Kurdish ٨
Urdu ۸
Amharic
Bengali
Chinese numeral 八,捌
Devanāgarī
Kannada
Telugu
Tamil
Hebrew ח (Het)
Hebrew שמונה (shmoneh)
Khmer
Korean
Thai
Armenian Ը ը (ett)

8 (eight /ˈt/) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.

8 is:

It has an aliquot sum of 7 in the 4 member aliquot sequence (8,7,1,0) being the first member of 7-aliquot tree. All powers of 2 (2x), have an aliquot sum of one less than themselves.

A number is divisible by 8 if its last 3 digits, when written in decimal, are also divisible by 8, or its last 3 digits are 0 when written in binary.

8 and 9 form a Ruth–Aaron pair under the second definition in which repeated prime factors are counted as often as they occur.

There are a total of eight convex deltahedra.

A polygon with eight sides is an octagon. Figurate numbers representing octagons (including eight) are called octagonal numbers.

A polyhedron with eight faces is an octahedron. A cuboctahedron has as faces six equal squares and eight equal regular triangles.

A cube has eight vertices.

Sphenic numbers always have exactly eight divisors.

The number 8 is involved with a number of interesting mathematical phenomena related to the notion of Bott periodicity. For example, if O(∞) is the direct limit of the inclusions of real orthogonal groups


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