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I would guess that your assumption of sampling being conducted for exactly 8 seconds might be off by 0.24 seconds due to startup connection times etc.
Feel free to dig into the source at: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm/blob/indigo-devel/tools/rostopic/src/rostopic/__init__.py