why is the symbol for 8 a rightside up infinity?

[Windogg]

just wondering...

 

[BigSmooth]

It's not, it's VIII.

 

[flood]

better question:
why is the symbol for infinity a sideways 8?

 

[Adul]

hehe windogg.

NEF!

 

[hominid skull]

sure it's not a leftside up inifinity..?

 

[John]

Things that make you go humm.....

Maybe Socrates came up with it?

 

[yakko]

That was nefalicious.

 

[DannyLove]

heh

 

[GrimReefer]

the motion connected with the sideways 8 never ends. It always goes around and around. But so does a circle.

 

[prodigy]

I don't know

 

[thEnEuRoMancER]

grimreefer: you're right but a circle is too easily mistaken with a zero

 

[GrimReefer]

O 0

Yeah your right. It wouldn't be seen as "infinity".

 

[SSP]

It's more like Things that makes you go... "Fu*k it!".

 

[Bignate603]

i think infinity was thought up long after somebody thought up 8. 8 just was made up to represent eight things. When they were trying to devide on a symbol for infinity, the took the 8 and turned it on it's side because it kept going around and around. The 8 came first, so it's not a sideways infinity, infinity is a sideways 8.

 

[kuk]

Here's an idea:

Take any point of the infinity simbol, and follow the line ... it loops and always comes back to where it started ... it never ends!

Just like infinity ...

 

[bikman]

If you take a strip of paper, twist it once and then tape the ends together, you get what is called a mobius strip. It looks like the infiniti symbol and if you took a pencil and started drawing a line on it, you could write on both sides of the strip without lifting the pencil.