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If you really need to memorise hard numbers, use a memory palace. By mapping numbers to consonants and then putting vowels in between you can make any word. Th
by Rainymood 10y ago
If you really need to memorise hard numbers, use a memory palace.
By mapping numbers to consonants and then putting vowels in between you can make any word. The system I use is the following:
1 - t
2 - n
3 - m
4 - r
5 - l
6 - j
7 - f
8 - k,g
9 - p,b
0 - s,z
For example, Pi starts with 3.14159265. Chunk this into pairs of digits: 14, 15, 92, 65, or in consonants we find, tr, tl, pn, jl. We can create a story with this: trtl, pan, jelly. To find the numbers just "invert" the story!
Shameless plug to my own blog [1], I get no advertising revenue or anything from this I would just love to share this with you guys as I feel like you guys might find it interesting. In the post I detail how I memorised the first 37 digits of Pi.
I honestly think it's amazing that I can still recall, with ease, the first 37 digits of Pi 5 (!) months after first memorising them.
[1] http://rainymood.github.io/jekyll/update/2017/03/13/how-to-memorise-pi.html http://rainymood.github.io/jekyll/update/2017/03/13/how-to-m...
- kbart 10y agoDoes this really work? I've never had any success with mnemonics. The best way I've found to remember numbers is to type them on number keyboard from time to time and let the muscle memory do its work.
- Rainymood 10y ago>Does this really work? Well, obviously N = 1 but if I can't convince you with "I can recall a string of 37 digits 5 months after memorising them" I don't know what will! It is SO weird but it just works. It's hard to explain and really paradoxical because I use it for everything now ... Allais paradox 1953 (lm => lam => drunk in dutch), Ellsberg paradox 1961 (jt => jeti => jeti chasing jedi with urns on a mountain). In my honest opinion its a skill worth learning. If this didn't convince you, Sherlock also uses it in the series ;)