I am Geek
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Well, I wasn't very clear about it, but the guy is me :-D My method is described there to quite a detailed level. But basically, to answer your question, I have an imaginary walk in my home town, Stockholm. The walk is imaginary in one sense, but real in the sense that I have walked along those paths many times in real life, so it is ingrained into my memory very firmly and naturally. Anyway, along this imaginary walk I have what could be called stations. I lump those stations into chunks of 10 stations, and super-chunks of 10 chunks and so on, so I can do random access to any station I like, given a decimal position in Pi. In each station I store 10 digits (so a chunk of 10 stations can store 100 digits). To store 10 digits in one station I need 4 words, mnemonics. 2 mnemoncis make 5 digits, so 4 mnemonics (or 2 mnemonic pairs) make 10 digits. So, if someone asks me what is the digit at position 2342, I just go to chunk 234 (with the help of super-chunk orientation if I need), and find digit 2 there, which is represented by the first letter of the second word. The translation from letters to digits is simple, a letter represents the digit it looks like, basically, with a couple of exceptions. So, an A is a 4, and I is a 1, etc. So, knowing what station 234 is in Stockholm, I have a small micro story there consisting of 4 words which more or less automatically pops up in my mind when I think of the place. I design the stories almost like headlines, for example "Bread-spread establishes Mexican food" (that is a micro story I have inside a restaurant I sometimes eat at). As you see, the stories can be designed to fit not only the digits that need to be stored at that station, but also to fit the place as such, like in this case a restaurant. It is a very easy and efficient way to memorize this kind of things. Magnus
You are a MEDIEVAL Geek...and most of those were satisified with just a HOUSE of memory, not a Swedish capital of memory...geesh
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You are a MEDIEVAL Geek...and most of those were satisified with just a HOUSE of memory, not a Swedish capital of memory...geesh
cpkilekofp wrote:
You are a MEDIEVAL Geek...and most of those were satisified with just a HOUSE of memory, not a Swedish capital of memory...geesh
Ha ha, yeah, I know.
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No! I am Geek.
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