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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
- Subject: Re: Silly Mnemonic Tricks
- Message-ID: <11678@scott.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:17:44 GMT
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- In article <9BA=#Z+@engin.umich.edu> jxm@engin.umich.edu (John Murray) writes:
- <Also, count the letters in the following
- <to obtain the first eleven digits of e
- <
- <"To express e, remember to memorize a sentence to simplify this"
- <
- <Neat, cos it kinda self-referential!
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- Neat, yes, but not neater than the repetition of "1828" after the
- second digit (2.7 1828 1828 4). It almost makes the mnemonic superfluous.
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