I remember pi with a little poem I created some forty years ago:
C over D
Yes. I have a trick, sequences to recall,
Using one plain mnemonic faultless ordinal,
Breaching all of the barriers that retain pi–
Bereft, will all lax thinkers die,
By circles overborne?
(Pi to 30 digits, with the decimal point and a question mark at the end signifying there's more to come.)
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I use many of the techniques described by Tony Buzan in his book on memory http://www.amazon.com/Use-Your-Perfect-Memory-Techniques/dp/0452266068/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286895330&sr=1-5
ReplyDeleteI learned about a memory tag system using simple symbols for 0 to 9. With that... I memorized the 44 US presidents in order. It all started when I started doing research for a student with special needs who had memory deficiencies. I wrote about it here: http://musingsandmiscthoughts.blogspot.com/2009/06/do-you-recall.html
ReplyDeleteOh, and your poem is a terrific idea. I've not read of using the numbers of letters in words to "tag" real numbers. Very clever. An original idea... or nicely borrowed?
ReplyDeleteDon: "...using the numbers of letters in words to "tag" real numbers. Very clever. An original idea... or nicely borrowed?"
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't remember, but it's inconceivable that it wasn't thought of before. Luckily, there is no zero in the first 30 digits of pi, because I can't think of any zero-letter words.
I guess I'm smart enough, though, to think of some way to get a zero. The Arabs did, more than a thousand years ago. :-)
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ReplyDeleteIn the future,though, if you don't post as "Anonymous," you stand a better chance of escaping the spam filter.