memorable numbers
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berndg wrote: So, what does make one number more memorable than the other? I think most 7,8,8,10 digit numbers can be memorable as long as a way is associated with them to be memorable. Choose a number and I'll show you how I would meorize it in a jiffy. :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
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I actually get upset when people divide a seven or ten digit phone number into odd pairs of numbers, like for instance 0861 nn nn ... A phone number is [2 digit code]3 digits-four digits, and it's with that grouping I remember them all. The damn '1' just doesn't belong with the 086, it belongs with the next three digits. I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
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I actually get upset when people divide a seven or ten digit phone number into odd pairs of numbers, like for instance 0861 nn nn ... A phone number is [2 digit code]3 digits-four digits, and it's with that grouping I remember them all. The damn '1' just doesn't belong with the 086, it belongs with the next three digits. I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. - Aleister Crowley
Strangely enough, growing up in a different country, I also find the (area code) 3 digit - 4 digits format incredibly easy to learn. Australia moved to an 8 digit format in the mid to late 90's but it was still relatively easy to remember (at least for those in the Eastern 2 capital cities. Just bung a 9 on to the front of the old number). My old phone number was 314 7802 - not much of a leap to 9 314 7802 :) But sometime in 1999 (or maybe earlier) Radio Melbourne decided to express their call-in number thusly; 9 41 41 774 (their frequency is 774 Khz). It probably sounded cool to the marketing droid who mandated it but that pattern just felt wrong. To this day I think of it as 9 414 1774 (the old 3 - 4 pattern with that 9 prepended). How fortunate that the US also does (area code) 3 digits - 4 digits :) Rob Manderson **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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Some numbers are easier and some are harder to remember. Your cell phone provider will probably give you a cryptic one on a "pay as you go" subscription, and a memorable one if you take out an anual contract. Some providers even charge a premium for "very memorable" numbers. So, what does make one number more memorable than the other? Is there a well-defined mathematical quality of a memorable series of digits? Puzzled. Bernd :confused:
I don't know, but a friend of mine has a phone number that is 3141-5193 (no, I won't give the area number) and I find it very easy to remember (it's almost pi). :-D Perl combines all the worst aspects of C and Lisp: a billion different sublanguages in one monolithic executable. It combines the power of C with the readability of PostScript. -- Jamie Zawinski
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berndg wrote: So, what allows us to "quickly" judge upon the memorable quality of a number? Maybe I'm not expressing myself clearly. Depending on the meorisation techniques you have, number will either appear memorable or almost random. Possibly I have ODed on numbers as a kid, and now all telephone numbers appear memorable to me. Lets say a number like 838383 (the pizza place here) is easy to remember as it is just two digit repeating number. But the number 5756582 also looks easily to be memorable to me, but I doubt whether most other people find it that way. Regardz Colin J Davies
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ColinDavies wrote: 5756582 Doesn't look too bad: 57-56-58-2 ... pretty easy in fact :-D Paul ;)
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Strangely enough, growing up in a different country, I also find the (area code) 3 digit - 4 digits format incredibly easy to learn. Australia moved to an 8 digit format in the mid to late 90's but it was still relatively easy to remember (at least for those in the Eastern 2 capital cities. Just bung a 9 on to the front of the old number). My old phone number was 314 7802 - not much of a leap to 9 314 7802 :) But sometime in 1999 (or maybe earlier) Radio Melbourne decided to express their call-in number thusly; 9 41 41 774 (their frequency is 774 Khz). It probably sounded cool to the marketing droid who mandated it but that pattern just felt wrong. To this day I think of it as 9 414 1774 (the old 3 - 4 pattern with that 9 prepended). How fortunate that the US also does (area code) 3 digits - 4 digits :) Rob Manderson **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
Rob Manderson wrote: How fortunate that the US also does (area code) 3 digits - 4 digits Jiminy Christmas! You mean we do have a standard that is like someone else's in the world! :omg: Must get that changed.... ;) BW CP Member Homepages
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Rob Manderson wrote: How fortunate that the US also does (area code) 3 digits - 4 digits Jiminy Christmas! You mean we do have a standard that is like someone else's in the world! :omg: Must get that changed.... ;) BW CP Member Homepages
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Calm down! I'm sure no one else has to dial '1' first just to call someone in the same aera code, but slightly different location. I used to tell newcomers here that we're so remote you have to dial '1' before '911' but they're starting to catch on to me.:( Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true... -
Calm down! I'm sure no one else has to dial '1' first just to call someone in the same aera code, but slightly different location. I used to tell newcomers here that we're so remote you have to dial '1' before '911' but they're starting to catch on to me.:( Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Reminds me of my first visit to these fair shores (back in '82). I managed to completely convince em that, due to the coriolis effect, Australian clocks ran backwards. They totally believed me. But the one true story I told em (about the 6 foot earthworms in Gippsland) they were convinced was a fabrication :) Rob Manderson **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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Rob Manderson wrote: How fortunate that the US also does (area code) 3 digits - 4 digits Jiminy Christmas! You mean we do have a standard that is like someone else's in the world! :omg: Must get that changed.... ;) BW CP Member Homepages
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brianwelsch wrote: Must get that changed.... Dammit. I knew I shoulda kept my mouth shut! :) Rob Manderson **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: Reminds me of my first visit to these fair shores (back in '82). I managed to completely convince em that, due to the coriolis effect, Australian clocks ran backwards. They totally believed me. But the one true story I told em (about the 6 foot earthworms in Gippsland) they were convinced was a fabrication :) Rob Manderson **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
:laugh: One of the most reliable ways to lie is to tell the absolute truth in such a way as not to be believed. I think the worm did the trick.;) Heard in Bullhead City - "You haven't lost your girl -
you've just lost your turn..." [sigh] So true...