Instructions: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Input: What can be used to describe if something is 8 times as numerous?, Context: According to Vetter, the description of the Buddhist path may initially have been as simple as the term "the middle way". In time, this short description was elaborated, resulting in the description of the eightfold path.
Output:
eightfold