8

In quantum computing, a qubit or quantum bit (sometimes qbit) is the basic unit of quantum information: 8

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

8 is:

  • a composite number, its proper divisors being 1, 2, and 4 It is twice 4 or four times 2.
  • a power of two, being 23 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form p3p being an integer greater than 1.
  • the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime.
  • the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet.
  • a Fibonacci number, being 3 plus 5. The next Fibonacci number is 13. 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube.
  • the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu’s Theorem.

The modern digit 8, like all modern Arabic numerals other than zero, originates with the Brahmi numerals. The Brahmi digit for eight by the 1st century was written in one stroke as a curve └┐ looking like an uppercase H with the bottom half of the left line and the upper half of the right line removed. However the digit for eight used in India in the early centuries of the Common Era developed considerable graphic variation, and in some cases took the shape of a single wedge, which was adopted into the Perso-Arabic tradition as ٨ (and also gave rise to the later Devanagari form ८); the alternative curved glyph also existed as a variant in Perso-Arabic tradition, where it came to look similar to our digit 5.

The digits as used in Al-Andalus by the 10th century were a distinctive western variant of the glyphs used in the Arabic-speaking world, known as ghubār numerals (ghubār translating to “sand table”). In these digits, the line of the 5-like glyph used in Indian manuscripts for eight came to be formed in ghubār as a closed loop, which was the 8-shape that became adopted into European use in the 10th century.

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