On Thu, 11/7/2024 7:59 PM, Kaufman wrote:
On 07/11/2024 04:38, Gelato wrote:
Any good online acronym generators for the 7 swing states?
Any good brain can memorise 7 items in a shopping list. This has been
proved scientifically over the years. It only requires interest in the
list which you seem to possess.
But there are tricks for that.
Your brain has better memory ability for "short phrases"
than for "one long phrase". This is roughly my phrasing for PI
as a memory task. If you say this out loud, you might find it
aligns with your breathing a bit. But breaking this up, is not
related to breathing. Some of the sections seem to be harder to
memorize than others. For example 69399 and 37510
are dead easy -- can you see why ? "Lookit at all the guzindas".
3.14159 26535 89793 238 46 264 3383 279 502 884 1971 69399 37510
It's groups of digits that don't have patterns, or are phonetic
challenges, those can be harder to memorize (for someone with
acoustic memory).
Not everyone has the same kind of memory. My memory type is
weak sauce. It's the people with photographic memory (or better),
who have this sort of stuff beat. For example, there is a
person who can ream off one million digits of PI.
Normally, someone would be teaching you these things
in grade school, where we were taught all sorts of
silly stuff.
One teacher taught us, how to draw a perfect circle on
a chalk board... but it was hard on the elbow of his suit :-)
No, he did not use a compass or protractor or any other tools
or cheats. Just a piece of chalk, and a cooperative elbow.
For the teachers who were one-trick ponies, they would
show you their trick, again and again.
What damaged my ability to memorize PI, was the above
string wasn't done all in the same session. I did a part of
it at one time, then later, when finding it was listed to
fifty digits in the CRC Tables book, I set about trying
for fifty digits. That seems to be a mistake. It's hard to
splice a new section on the end.
So if you're shooting for PI, then you want to define
the target length, and do the whole thing in one
session (may take a few days work, until it's parsed
the way works best for you).
Paul
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)