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English eight, from Old English eahta, æhta, Proto-Germanic *ahto is a direct continuation of Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓ(w)-, and as such cognate with Greek ὀκτώ and Latin octo-, both of which stems are reflected by the English prefix oct(o)-, as in the ordinal adjective octaval or octavary, the distributive adjective is octonary.
In spoken English, ordinal numerals and partitive numerals are identical with a few exceptions. Thus "fifth" can mean the element between fourth and sixth, or the fraction created by dividing the unit into five pieces. When used as a partitive numeral, these forms can be pluralized: one seventh, two sevenths. The sole exceptions to this rule ...
8, the X-SAMPA symbol for the close-mid central rounded vowel, equivalent to the IPA symbol ɵ 8, a common substitute for the ou-ligature ȣ 8, a letter in the Old Italic script (𐌚) with the value /f/
The English mathematician John Wallis is credited with introducing the infinity symbol with its mathematical meaning in 1655, in his De sectionibus conicis. [5] [6] [7] Wallis did not explain his choice of this symbol. It has been conjectured to be a variant form of a Roman numeral, but which Roman numeral is unclear.
The bagua (Chinese: 八卦; pinyin: bāguà; lit. 'eight trigrams') is a set of symbols from China intended to illustrate the nature of reality as being composed of mutually opposing forces reinforcing one another.
The Six Triple Eight, as the battalion was nicknamed, was tasked with sorting through 17 million pieces of undelivered mail in Europe and ensuring it was delivered to U.S. soldiers. At the time ...
In English and many other languages, they are used to coin numerous series of words. For example: simplex, duplex (communication in only 1 direction at a time, in 2 directions simultaneously) unicycle, bicycle, tricycle (vehicle with 1 wheel, 2 wheels, 3 wheels) dyad, triad, tetrad (2 parts, 3 parts, 4 parts)
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