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

66 points · 39 comments · fuzzythinker

  1. nylonstrung · · focus · HN ↗
    The most common memorization exercise in history is the recitation of the Quran, which is 77K words long and has maybe 3 million living ḥuffāẓ who have fully memorized it

    I wonder what techniques from that world are generalizable, since its a pretty remarkable feat with a very long history of practice

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