Subject: Re: [lojban] mnemonic, not sure what it means

From: Edward Cherlin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:00:22 -0700

At 07:00 AM 6/23/2001, michael helsem wrote:
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>PA RE CI VO MU XA ZE BI SO:

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>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