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Older versions of the Periodic Table numbered the groups in different ways.

In one common version the noble gases were group VIII

In others they were group VIIIb ( some transition metals were group VIII)

in yet another they were group 0

The cureent verion of the periodic table most widely in use puts them in group 18

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