Code figure-sounds

The code figure-sounds is a method Mnémotechnique intended to facilitate the memorizing Chiffre S.

Description

By considering that the numbers to be memorized are in Base 10 it is possible to apply the following correspondences:

The figures appear in inverse order and per pair in order to support their memorizing. The reader will have facility to memorize it if he studies this table and tries to release from the relations between the couples of figures vertically, like between the horizontally paired figures and the letters.

For example, in which year Marie Curie did she discover the Radium? Answer: 1898.

It is now a question of inventing a sentence (a little ridiculous) which facilitates the recall. By leaving side the first two figures, one could have: “Radium was the puffs out of Mrs. Curie. ” For the word one puffs out then has the letter B which corresponds to figure 9. Then F for figure 8 (remaining letters not being entered since corresponding to no figure).

With a regular practice, the reader will be able to retain a number impressing of dates and numbers.

This method is tiresome, but is regularly used at the time of the championships of the world of memorizing. Alleged the Medium S of Variety and their accomplice also uses them: the latter will quickly say words which are sometimes without significance, but which precisely contains the birth dates in coded form.

History

The first mnemotechnical system of equivalences between figures and letters known in Europe east that of the French mathematician Pierre Hérigone in 1643. The first to make a code figure-sounds of it is the German Johann-Just Winckelmann, in 1648, whose system is sophisticated inter alia by Gregor von Feinaigle and Aimé Paris at the beginning of the 19th century.

See too

Source

  • Science & life , September 2003, p. 58.

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