From: "Geo" 

that's what happens when things make it to long term memory..

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> Tee hee, when I was 15 I had a summer job at a local market, where there
> were no price tags on the products but we had to memoreize the codes of
> every product and punch them in manually. And damned if I don't still
> remember a whole bunch of them, and that was like, what, 15 years ago...
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (Rhye bread: 587.  Lipton tea bags: 1040. Fat free milk: 80........it
still
> hurts )
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:41bcb23b{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Ok take a phone number, areacode-prefix-number, it's just a big long
> > meaningless number. How about an IP address, 216.144.8.10 is my main dns
> > server, I remember dozens of IP addresses.
> >
> > The trick to remembering long numbers is you need to get them into long
> > term
> > memory, short term memory is limited but long term can handle long
numbers
> > . If you don't believe me, take any long meaningless
number and make
up
> > a
> > song so you can keep repeating it to your self for 2 days, then it will
> > get
> > into long term memory and you'll never forget it.
> >
> > Geo.
>
>

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