Once Upon a Time in Shaolin RZA replied that the 88-year ban was necessary to maintain the integrity of the album as a work of art and to deflect any notions of a grand marketing or publicity stunt. According to him, the number 8 bears symbolic significance because there were eight original members of the Wu-Tang Clan, the numbers of the year 2015 add up to eight, Paddle8 has eight in its name, and a rotated eight is the symbol for infinity, which was used on their second album "Wu-Tang Forever". Wu-Tang later released an official statement saying that, although the music may not be sold
Vanish at infinity Vanish at infinity In mathematics, a function on a normed vector space is said to vanish at infinity if For example, the function defined on the real line vanishes at infinity. More generally, a function formula_4 on a locally compact space (which may not have a norm) vanishes at infinity if, given any positive number formula_5, there is a compact subset formula_6 such that whenever the point formula_8 lies outside of formula_6. In other words, for each positive number formula_5 the set formula_11 is compact. For a given locally compact space formula_12, the set of such functions (where formula_14 is