4/01/2009

Eight*

Have to use this...even though I don't know what the term means.
8 and 9 form a Ruth-Aaron pair under the second definition in which repeated prime factors are counted as often as they occur.

Ruth-Aaron pair? A math person who is a baseball fan?

In the beginning, various groups in India wrote eight more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase H with the bottom half of the left line and the upper half of the right line removed. At one point this glyph came close to looking like our modern five. With the western Ghubar Arabs, the similarity of the glyph to five was banished by connecting the beginning and the end of stroke together, and it was only a matter of the Europeans rounding the glyph that led to our modern eight.[2]

Eight is the retired jersey number of Baseball Hall of Fame players Cal Ripken, Jr., Joe Morgan, Willie Stargell, Carl Yastrzemski, and Yogi Berra.
*-Thank you, Wikipedia

8 dies insquequo Oris Dies!

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