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John E. Franklin

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Registered: 2005-08-29

Posts: 3,588

made-up number symbols for fun!!!!

I made these up 3 weeks ago.
I tried to use them to memorize pi better, but
in the end I memorized 50 more digits of pi
simply by saying the digits in groups of 8 mostly,
over and over.  My audio memory is still better
than my visual memory in some ways I guess.

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JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

Posts: 6,868

Re: made-up number symbols for fun!!!!

I have never managed to memorize more than the first 25 decimal places of π.

MathsIsFun

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Registered: 2005-01-21

Posts: 7,711

Re: made-up number symbols for fun!!!!

Only 9 for me, but I did Engineering, and 3.1416 was often overkill

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Devantè

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Registered: 2006-07-14

Posts: 6,400

Re: made-up number symbols for fun!!!!

Do them in groups of 4 and 8, 4 if your memory is not that great.

I got up to 308 recently and stopped because of how boring it was.

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 46,347

Re: made-up number symbols for fun!!!!

Devantè,
Thats better than me...I stopped at 35 places......
I thought it would be better to remember more numbers...
I still remember, after 20 years,

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