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Engineering Memory: On learning to memorize first 100 digits of pi (2024)

66 points · 39 comments · fuzzythinker

  1. Betelbuddy · · focus · HN ↗
    None of these techniques are new, they were just described here in $50 words and in triple the time necessary.

    I can teach you right now, the first 50 digits of Pi, after the 3 and the comma. And with almost zero effort. Just memorize the text below...

    Congrats you little, little genius.

    # ===========================================================

    "A poem I write carefully to encode every new digit silently, reminding curious beginners how we can decipher each number in hidden text you see.

    Whenever you go through beautiful green wilderness at midnight, remember when I carefully recited a simple paragraph and practiced repeating the numbers again; I remembered."

    # ===========================================================

    1. beng-nl · · focus · HN ↗
      Sir I have a rhyme excelling In mystical force and magic spelling Celestial sprites elucidate All my own striving can’t relate
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