From: Ellen K. 

Gaaaaaaaa, WAY more work.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:59:09 -0500, "Steve Ewing"
 wrote in message
:

>On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:36:50 -0800, Ellen K.
> wrote:
>
>> But we were talking about remembering numbers like a phone number, which
>> has no such built-in meaning.
>
>If anyone is really interested, the Harry Lorayne memory books, of which
>the easiest to absorb is the "Page-A-Minute Memory Book":
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345410149/qid=1103075519/sr=8-1
/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-9665164-9599247?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
>offer an easy way to remember any numbers.  You have to memorize a table
>of consonant sounds that correspond to numbers:
>   1 = t, d
>   2 = n
>   3 = m
>   ...and so on, and then you can make words out of the numbers: 12113
>could be "tanned dame" (you go by *sound*, so the double 'n'
in "tanned"
>only counts as one '2').  Then you use his standard techniques to remember
>the phrase and associate it with whatever the number represents.

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