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Re: [lojban] mnemonic, not sure what it means
At 07:00 AM 6/23/2001, michael helsem wrote:
for
NO
PA RE CI VO MU XA ZE BI SO:
NA
PURCI VE MIXYZBASU
Uhh, "Not before (4th conversion) mass-make" hey nonny nonny?
Actually, I find the utterance noparecivo.muxazebiso just as mnemonic. Or
you could try memorizing a few useful constants.
Pi ~ 3.14159 cipipavopamuso
e ~ 2.7182818 repizepabirebipabi
log 2 ~ 0.30103 nopicinopanoci
beast = xaxaxa
That covers all of the digits. Here are a few more.
2Pi ~ 6.28319 xapirebicipaso
PI/4 ~ 0.785398 nopizebimucisobi
180/Pi ~ 57.2958 muzepipasomubi
Countdown sobizexamuvocirepano
Gross pavovo
Great gross pazerebi
Conversions
in-cm repimuvo
lb-gm vomuvo
Powers of 2
pa
vo
bi
paxa
cire
xavo
parebi
remuxa
mupare
panorevo
vonosoxa
xamumucixa
panovobimuzexa
paxazezezerepaxa
voresovosoxazeresoxa
Factorials
pa
re
xa
revo
pareno
zereno
munovono
Golden ratio
papixapabi
Approximate length of year
cixamupiremu
Length of day
bixavonono
Square roots
pa
papivopavorepa
papizecirenomu
re
repirecixanoze
Dates
panoxaxa
pavomuci
pavosore
pazezexa
pabipare
Actually, my recommendation is to take any old list of numbers that has
some interest to you (stock market quotes? atomic weights? dates of Chinese
dynasties? poker probabilities? letter frequencies by language?), write out
some conversions, and then practice saying them. Even a few minutes of this
hammers the digits into your brain better than any possible mnemonic. Do it
until you don't have to look or count in order to get the digit names, then
practice some more on license plate numbers while you drive, or anything
else that comes handy.
Edward Cherlin
Generalist
"A knot! Oh, do let me help undo it."
Alice in Wonderland