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- From: ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert)
- Subject: Re: mnemonics in general
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.093253.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- References: <29OCT199216261065@adpdp2.lanl.gov> <1992Nov9.110145.1@wombat.newcastle.edu.au> <1992Nov9.043447.5968@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1992Nov10.122923.25536@black.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 22:32:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.122923.25536@black.ox.ac.uk>, microsoc@black.ox.ac.uk (Microsoc) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov9.043447.5968@dg-rtp.dg.com> cochran@spam.rtp.dg.com (A. Jing Hippy) writes:
- >>eepjm@wombat.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Moylan) writes:
- >>| In article <29OCT199216261065@adpdp2.lanl.gov>, 108116@adpdp2.lanl.gov (108116) writes:
- >>| > Ok guys! What mnemonics do you all know? The more unusual the better, I'll
- >>| > start you off:
- >>|
- >>| Well, there's the one for remembering the first hundred or so digits
- >>| of pi. It starts out as "God, I need a drink!" Can't have been a
- >>| very good mnemonic, though: I've forgotten the rest.
- >>
- >>OK, I don't *think* I'm stupid, but how does one use "God, I need a drink"
- >>to remember 3.14159?
- >
- > Count the number of letters in each word....
- >
- > Again, it can't be a good mnemonic since I can't remember it, but isn't it
- > something like
- > "God, I need a drink (alcoholic of course) after that heavy
- > lecture involving Quantum Mechanics?"
- > (Would give 3.14159265457979... is that right, anyone?)
- >
- ---
- My memory says 3.14159265358979323846... which means it must be `...the heavy
- lectures...'.
-
- Now if I could only lay my hands on my copy of Abramowitz and Stegun ...
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