We have already seen that odd numbers were considered as being Yang, while the even numbers were Yin, so that the eight outer numbers of the Lo Shu represented these two principles in balanced equilibrium around the axial center.

indeed, there are never fewer than eight of them on stage, and that is only for the more intimate numbers.

In computing and electronic systems, binary-coded decimal ( BCD ) is a class of binary encodings of decimal numbers where each decimal digit is represented by a fixed number of bits, usually four or eight, although other sizes ( such as six bits ) have been used historically.

Chess is played on a square board of eight rows ( called ranks and denoted with numbers 1 to 8 ) and eight columns ( called files and denoted with letters a to h ) of squares.

For example, an 8-bit CPU deals with a range of numbers that can be represented by eight binary digits ( each digit having two possible values ), that is, 2 < sup > 8 </ sup > or 256 discrete numbers.

The DTMF system uses eight different frequency signals transmitted in pairs to represent 16 different numbers, symbols and letters-as detailed below.

The eight queens puzzle is an example of the more general n-queens problem of placing n queens on an n × n chessboard, where solutions exist for all natural numbers n with the exception of 2 and 3.

Subsequent to the resolution of the dispute, the Gibraltar telephone numbering plan has been increased to eight digits for land lines, adding a prefix of 200 to the existing Gibtelecom five digit numbers which is required to be dialled from October 2008.

Gibtelecom numbers are now eight digits beginning with 200 and a second operator CTS Gibraltar Limited has announced it will be providing fixed line services beginning with the prefix 216.

* Level 1: File names are limited to eight characters with a three-character extension, using upper case letters, numbers and underscore only.

Competitions involving large numbers of athletes sometimes use a " cut ": all competitors compete in the first three rounds, but only athletes who are currently among the top eight or have achieved some minimum distances are permitted to attempt to improve on their distance in additional rounds ( typically three ).

" The proposal included a graphical notation for the digits and new names for the numbers, suggesting that we should count " un, du, the, fo, pa, se, ki, unty, unty-un, unty-du " and so on, with successive multiples of eight named " unty, duty, thety, foty, paty, sety, kity and under.

With Earth held stationary at the center of a nonrotating frame, the successive inferior conjunction s of Venus over eight Earth years trace a pentagram mic pattern ( reflecting the difference between the numbers in the ratio ).

We can describe this probabilistic state by eight nonnegative numbers A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H ( where A

Faced with the necessity of turning an army of former civilians into a force of over eight million soldiers by 1942 ( a fortyfold increase within three years ), Marshall directed General Leslie McNair to focus efforts on rapidly producing large numbers of soldiers.

Novello returned to composing for the lyric stage in 1929, writing eight numbers for the revue The House that Jack Built.

There are only four such algebras, the other three being the real numbers R, the complex numbers C, and the quaternions H. The octonions are the largest such algebra, with eight dimensions, double the number of the quaternions from which they are an extension.

On 14 October another French convoy, protected by a strong squadron, was intercepted by a well-appointed and well-directed squadron of superior numbers – the squadrons were respectively eight French and fourteen British – in the Bay of Biscay.

The condition that the graph be 3-regular is necessary due to polyhedra such as the rhombic dodecahedron, which forms a bipartite graph with six degree-four vertices on one side and eight degree-three vertices on the other side ; because any Hamiltonian cycle would have to alternate between the two sides of the bipartition, but they have unequal numbers of vertices, the rhombic dodecahedron is not Hamiltonian.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

Japan has had 15 destructive ones ( eight of them disastrous ) since 1596.

Until the Bucs' bats quieted down a bit in Cincinnati over the weekend, the champions had eight men hitting over.

The marriage of John and Mary Black had clearly reached the breaking point after eight years.

Her first actual flight, for she and her kind had made mock flights on dummy panels since she was eight, showed her complete mastery of the techniques of her profession.

The couple married in 1827 and had eight children.

* 2006 – Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten, escapes from her captor Wolfgang Priklopil, after eight years of captivity.

The U. S. Senate Select Committee chaired by Senator Frank Church ( the Church Committee ) reported in 1975 that it had found " concrete evidence of at least eight plots involving the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro from 1960 to 1965.

These had one standard Mark 112 octuple ASROC launcher, located immediately above a reload system holding an additional 16 assembled rounds ( two complete reloads of eight missiles apiece ).

Because Justice John Paul Stevens had recused himself, only eight Justices heard the case, and it ended in a 4 – 4 tie.

As a young child, before the age of eight, Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, including the much loved The Owl and the Pussycat, and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland had made their impression, although she later said of Alice that she was more interested in Tenniel's illustrations than what they were about.

Sky News had had a free hand with domestic news for over eight years ( since 5 February 1989 ) and being owned by News International their papers were used to criticise the BBC for extending its news output.

Although BJU admitted Asians and other ethnic groups from its inception, it did not enroll black students until 1971, eight years after the University of South Carolina and Clemson University had been integrated by court order.

They had eight children:

Charles and Georgiana had eight children, but only four — Benjamin Herschel, Georgiana Whitmore, Dugald Bromhead and Henry Prevost — survived childhood.

Daily strips have suffered as well, in 1910 the strips had an unlimited amount of panels, covering the entire width page, while by 1930 most " dailies " had four or five panels covering six of the eight columns occupied by a traditional broadsheet paper, by 1958 those four panels would be narrower, and those would have half of the space a 1910 daily strip had, and around 1998 most strips would have three panels only ( with a few exceptions ), or even two or one on an occasional basis, apart from strips being smaller, as most papers became slightly narrower.

Indeed, his mother was illiterate and never recorded the date of his birth, remembering only that he had been born on a Wednesday, eight days before the Feast of the Ascension, which itself occurs 40 days after Easter.

The Browns had few worthy rivals among the AAFC's eight teams, but the New York Yankees and San Francisco 49ers were their closest competition.

The 13th Earl developed a variation on croquet named Captain Moreton's Eglinton Castle croquet, which had small bells on the eight hoops " to ring the changes ", two pegs, a double hoop with a bell and two tunnels for the ball to pass through.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

He promulgated a categorization of mind and matter as composed of eight types of " kalapas " of which the four elements are primary and a secondary group of four are color, smell, taste, and nutriment which are derivative from the four primaries.

FAO is composed of eight departments: Administration and Finance, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, Economic and Social Development, Fisheries and Aquaculture, Forestry, Knowledge and Communication, Natural Resource Management and Technical Cooperation.

He took office on April 13, and his government, composed of 20 ministers ( including eight from the PAIGC, eight from the PRS, and two from the PUSD ) was named on April 17.

The city is divided into eight quartiers, or districts, sometimes composed of several neighborhoods.

Between 1702 and 1705 Telemann composed at least eight operas, four of which went to the Leipzig operahouse and four to the Weissenfels court.

The Ivy League is an athletic conference composed of sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States.

It is managed by a 16-member Board of Directors, which is composed of eight members selected by a Nominating Committee on which all the constituencies of ICANN are represented ; six representatives of its Supporting Organizations, sub-groups that deal with specific sections of the policies under ICANN's purview ; an At-Large seat filled by an At-Large Organization ; and the President / CEO, appointed by the Board.

As the play appears to celebrate King James's ancestors and the Stuart accession to the throne in 1603 ( James believed himself to be descended from Banquo ), scholars say that the play is unlikely to have been composed earlier than 1603 and suggest that the parade of eight kings — which the witches show Macbeth in a vision in Act IV — is a compliment to King James.

Beyond the agglutinative languages, a polysynthetic language like Chukchi will have words composed of many morphemes: The word " təmeyŋəlevtpəγtərkən " is composed of eight morphemes t-ə-meyŋ-ə-levt-pəγt-ə-rkən, that can be glossed 1. SG. SUBJ-great-head-hurt-PRES. 1, meaning ' I have a fierce headache.

The German Navy initially ordered eight complete Krupp units composed of six platforms each.

A regular octahedron is a Platonic solid composed of eight equilateral triangles, four of which meet at each vertex.

The President is advised by a University Council composed of the Provost, eight members of the Faculty Council, two staff members, one graduate student, and two undergraduate students.

The Board is composed of the Chancellor, the President, two student members, two faculty members, one staff member, and eight individuals appointed by the British Columbia government.

The combination ' heaven ' 6 / 6 consisted of two pieces, containing 24 pips, figures of the 24 solar periods ; ' earth ' 1 / 1 also composed two pieces, but contained 4 pips, the 4 points of the compass-east, west, south, and north ; ' man ' 4 / 4 two pieces, containing 16 pips, the virtues of humanity, benevolence, propriety, and wisdom, four-fold ; ' harmony ' 1 / 3 two pieces of 8 pips, figuring the breath of harmony, which pervades the eight divisions of the year.

The next day, the names of the eight tracks not composed by Clint Mansell – Black Swans main composer – were released, listing The Chemical Brothers as contributing three new songs for the movie.

The band composed music for eight Herzog's films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde and My Best Fiend.

The group left Virgin in 2003 with the independent release Countrysides, composed of eight country and western covers and one new, original song.

Sullivan composed 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces.

The son of a military bandmaster, Sullivan composed his first anthem at age eight.

Young Sullivan became proficient with many of the instruments in the band and had composed an anthem, " By the waters of Babylon ", by the age of eight.

Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single!