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Cardinal | eight | |||
Ordinal | 8th (eighth) |
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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 | ||||
Amharic | ፰ | |||
Bengali | ৮ | |||
Chinese numeral | 八,捌 | |||
Devanāgarī | ८ | |||
Kannada | ೮ | |||
Telugu | ౮ | |||
Tamil | ௮ | |||
Hebrew | ח (Het) | |||
Hebrew | שמונה (shmoneh) | |||
Khmer | ៨ | |||
Korean | 팔 | |||
Thai | ๘ | |||
Armenian | Ը ը (ett) |
8 (eight /ˈeɪt/) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
8 is:
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.
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.
Sphenic numbers always have exactly eight divisors.
The spin group Spin(8) is the unique such group that exhibits the phenomenon of triality.
The lowest-dimensional even unimodular lattice is the 8-dimensional E8 lattice. Even positive definite unimodular lattice exist only in dimensions divisible by 8.
A figure 8 is the common name of a geometric shape, often used in the context of sports, such as skating. Figure-eight turns of a rope or cable around a cleat, pin, or bitt are used to belay something.
English eight, from Old English eahta, æhta, Proto-Germanic *ahto is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European , and as such cognate with Greek ὀκτώ and Latin octo-, both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix , as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary. The adjective octuple (Latin octu-plus) may also be used as a noun, meaning "a set of eight items"; the diminutive octuplet is mostly used to refer to eight sibling delivered in one birth.