Infinity symbol in bookbinding to indicate that a book is printed on acid-free paper and will therefore be long-lasting. In modern mysticism, the infinity symbol has become identified with a variation of the ouroboros, an ancient image of a snake eating its own tail that has also come to symbolize the infinite, and the ouroboros is sometimes drawn in figure-eight form to reflect this identification, rather than in its more traditional circular form. In the works of Vladimir Nabokov, including "The Gift" and "Pale Fire", the figure-eight shape is used symbolically to refer to the Möbius strip and the infinite, for instance
Hilbert symbol reciprocity law follows from the Artin reciprocity law and the definition of the Hilbert symbol in terms of the Artin symbol. If "K" is a number field containing the "n"th roots of unity, "p" is a prime ideal not dividing "n", π is a prime element of the local field of "p", and "a" is coprime to "p", then the power residue symbol () is related to the Hilbert symbol by The power residue symbol is extended to fractional ideals by multiplicativity, and defined for elements of the number field by putting ()=() where ("b") is the principal ideal generated