From: "Steve Ewing" 

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.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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