From cbmvax!uunet!CUVMA.BITNET!LOJBAN Thu Jan 30 18:45:01 1992 Return-Path: Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.21.1 #21.19) id ; Thu, 30 Jan 92 18:44 EST Received: by cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com (5.57/UUCP-Project/Commodore 2/8/91) id AA11109; Thu, 30 Jan 92 17:46:30 EST Received: from cunixf.cc.columbia.edu by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA09019; Thu, 30 Jan 92 17:21:32 -0500 Received: from cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu by cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (5.59/FCB) id AA25996; Thu, 30 Jan 92 17:21:35 EST Message-Id: <9201302221.AA25996@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Received: from CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU by CUVMB.COLUMBIA.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.1) with BSMTP id 2153; Thu, 30 Jan 92 17:19:21 EST Received: by CUVMB (Mailer R2.07) id 2646; Thu, 30 Jan 92 17:19:04 EST Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1992 10:00:31 CST Reply-To: Rick Miller Sender: Lojban list From: Rick Miller Subject: Digits and Mnemonics X-To: lojban@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: John Cowan , Eric Raymond , Eric Tiedemann Status: RO >>> NEW SUBSCRIBER ALERT <<< I've been following this list for only about a week, and haven't had the chance to download any info-files, but one thing strikes me as important in your discussion of digit-strings and the ease of remembering them. This may sound stupid initially, but consider... If the word for each digit begins with a different consonant, then any long string of digits may be remembered by 'filling in' those consonants to make a word or phrase in one's native language (whether or not it's lojban). I got this idea from _The_Memory_Book_ by Harry Lorayne and Jerry Lucas. Their system goes something like this: 1 == t or d 6 == j, sh, ch, or soft g 2 == n 7 == k, hard c, or hard g 3 == m 8 == f, v, or ph 4 == r 9 == p or b 5 == l 0 == z, s, or soft c So 5390 might be "lamps" or "limps" or "lumps", 4952 might be "airplane", and 9751 might be "buckled"... longer numbers being represented by phrases such as "A Beautiful Naked Blond Jumps Up and Down" == 91852719521639092112 (their example, not mine). With practice, this can be done almost as quickly as a digit-string can be spoken. Is this possible with the digits of lojban? What *are* the digits? Rick Miller, an Engineer and a Christian. discus!rick@uwm.edu