The
element number 08, in the original sketch, as shown above, symbolic of
oxygen on the
periodic table, seems to be an intuitive grasp at the premise that humans are "carbon-plus" types of elemental things,
carbon being atomic number 6 on the periodic table; hence, the numbers 8, 9, and 10, often seen on mock-designs of the Hu element theme concept, a human is an elemental thing "above" element number 6.
The following is a Feb 2020 symbol made by Libb Thims, for new business cards, shown below representing the
knowledge that humans are 26
element chemical species (26E), and that the current population is 7.8 billion or 8E times 10 to the power of 9, rounded up (correctly this should be a measure in hmol units, but his has not yet become a working concept):

The mass number 7E+09 is representative of the current population of humans, which in 2009 was 7,000,000,000 or 7 billion or 7 times 10 to the power of 9.

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