From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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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