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
Plane at infinity does make it look "special" in comparison to the other planes of the space. If the affine 3-space is real, formula_2, then the addition of a real projective plane formula_3 at infinity produces the real projective 3-space formula_4. Since any two projective planes in a projective 3-space are equivalent, we can choose a homogeneous coordinate system so that any point on the plane at infinity is represented as ("X":"Y":"Z":0). Any point in the affine 3-space will then be represented as ("X":"Y":"Z":1). The points on the plane at infinity seem to have three degrees of freedom, but homogeneous coordinates are equivalent