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Surely the number 14 is likely to get misheard as 40. And 13135432 is easily typo'd to 13134532.
by edent 2y ago
Surely the number 14 is likely to get misheard as 40. And 13135432 is easily typo'd to 13134532.
- gruez 2y agoIt's not about typos or mishearing stuff, it's about words being jumbled in memory. Unlike a sequence of digits, people don't store words "engineering" in their head as a string (eg. "E-N-G-I-N-E-E-R-I-N-G"). It's stored as something like "[concept of engineer] + [present participle]". That's far more likely to get jumbled in people's head during recall.