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Mnemonics: Anyone remember any?
I remember two.
Order of Planets in the Solar System:
My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas.
Order of Entries on the liability side of the balance sheet!
Simon Rapped Samantha Underwater
ShareCapital
Reserves
Secured Loans
Unsecured Loans
Do you remember any?
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Re: Mnemonics: Anyone remember any?
Not sure all these qualify
Planets. Though Pluto is no longer one of them
Mary's Violet Eyes Made John Sit Up and Notice . < the period is Pluto
Arithmetic: A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream
The 5 Great Lakes: HOMES = Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior
Electronic color coding: see this wiki page
mnemonic removed since a word in it offends some people. If interested in the mnenomic(s) see above link
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In high school debate, we used Significance Harms Inherency Topicality and Solvency.
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Originally Posted by
LaVolpe
Not sure all these qualify
Planets. Though Pluto is no longer one of them
Mary's
Violet
Eyes
Made
John
Sit
Up and
Notice . < the
period is Pluto
Arithmetic:
A Rat
In
The
House
May
Eat
The
Ice
Cream
The 5 Great Lakes: HOMES = Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior
Electronic color coding:
see this wiki page
mnemonic removed since a word in it offends some people. If interested in the mnenomic(s) see above link
Why did the astronomers decide on not considering Pluto a planet, any more?
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Why did the astronomers decide on not considering Pluto a planet, any more?
Because they changed their definition of "planet," and Pluto was no longer qualifying. Though not everyone is in agreement with the re-classification.
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My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets
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Value of PI = 3.141592 (consider length of each word as digit in its place):
How I wish I could calculate PI
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True Virgins Add Whiskey.
On True heading the magnetic Variation needs to be Added if it is West.
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is this a real "Mnemonic"?
HOMOTO
If Ho (Height observed) is More then Hc (Height calculated) correction has to be applied Towards the object.
Can anybody guess where that one belongs too?
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Color Coding:
B.B. ROY, Great Britain, Very Good Wife
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Welcher Seemann Liegt Bei Nanni Im Bett.
Sorry that was german, in english it say something like:
"Which Sailor Is In Bed with Nanni."
However in Eglish the hidden menaing is lost.
It gives the sequence of the "Ostfriesische Inseln" (Island along the north coast of germany)
Wangerooge, Spiekeroog, Langeoog, Baltrum, Norderney, Juist (I know that doesn't start with an I!), Baltrum
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Order of operations
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.
Parenthesis Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction
SLOW
Super Luxurious Omnidirectional Whatsamajig
which is better than the old name: Super Hydraulic Instantaneous Transporter.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
opus
is this a real "Mnemonic"?
HOMOTO
If Ho (Height observed) is More then Hc (Height calculated) correction has to be applied Towards the object.
Can anybody guess where that one belongs too?
Trigonometry :confused:
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Mnemomics? Menomics? My next exercise might (or not) instill correct spelling. BB
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Originally Posted by
abhijit
Why did the astronomers decide on not considering Pluto a planet, any more?
I started a thread a while back that was about this.
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ighlight=pluto
It was largely because another "planet" that was actually bigger than Pluto and also more distant was discovered and instead of adding another planet they decided to declassify Pluto as a planet. If they hadn't done that then we would now have 10 or more planets in our solar system instead of 8. Some trivia about Pluto. Because of the eccentricity of Pluto's orbit it is not always more distant than Neptune is from the Sun. For 20 years of it's 249 year orbit it is closer to the Sun than Neptune.
This from that thread I started. :
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Eris, which is the only dwarf planet more massive than Pluto, is the most distant object ever seen in orbit around the Sun, even more distant than Sedna, the Kuiper Belt object discovered in 2003. It is almost 10 billion miles from the Sun and more than 3 times more distant than Pluto and takes more than twice as long to orbit the Sun as Pluto. It has an orbital period of 556.7 years.
On the subject of mnemonics. SOH CAH TOA. Very useful in trigonometry for remembering sine, cosine and tangent. Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse. Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse. Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent. I didn't learn that from my trigonometry teacher but rather from from French teacher when I was in high school.
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A story for the value of PI...
It's from The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol.8 No.3, Pg.56/57 but I am not sure who wrote it. The story, which is a story about itself, contains the first 402 decimals of Pi. Any punctuation mark other than a period represents a zero digit. Words of longer than 9 letters represent two adjacent digits (for example, a twelve-letter word represents the two digits 1-2). A digit written literally stands for the same digit in the expansion!
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For a time I stood pondering on circle sizes. The large computer mainframe quietly processed all of its assembly code. Inside my entire hope lay for figuring out an elusive expansion. Value: pi. Decimals expected soon. I nervously entered a format procedure. The mainframe processed the request. Error. I, again entering it, carefully retyped. This iteration gave zero error printouts in all - success. Intently I waited. Soon, roused by thoughts within me, appeared narrative mnemonics relating digits to verbiage ! The idea appeared to exist but only in abbreviated fashion - little phrases typically. Pressing on I then resolved, deciding firmly about a sum of decimals to use - likely around four hundred, presuming the computer code soon halted! Pondering these ideas, words appealed to me. But a problem of zeros did exist. Pondering more, solution subsequently appeared. Zero suggests a punctuation element. Very novel! My thoughts were culminated. No periods, I concluded. All residual marks of punctuation = zeros. First digit expansion answer then came before me. On examining some problems unhappily arose. That imbecilic bug! The printout I possessed showed four nine as foremost decimals. Manifestly troubling. Totally every number looked wrong. Repairing the bug took much effort. A pi mnemonic with letters truly seemed good. Counting of all the letters probably should suffice. Reaching for a record would be helpful. Consequently, I continued, expecting a good final answer from computer. First number slowly displayed on the flat screen - 3. Good. Trailing digits apparently were right also. Now my memory scheme must probably be implementable. The technique was chosen, elegant in scheme: by self reference a tale mnemonically helpful was ensured. An able title suddenly existed - ``Circle Digits". Taking pen I began. Words emanated uneasily. I desired more synonyms. Speedily I found my (alongside me) Thesaurus. Rogets is probably an essential in doing this, instantly I decided. I wrote and erased more. The Rogets clearly assisted immensely. My story proceeded (how lovely!) faultlessly. The end, above all, would soon joyfully overtake. So, this memory helper story is incontestably complete. Soon I will locate publisher. There a narrative will I trust immediately appear, producing fame.
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I only get 401, unless you count the decimal in PI as a character (not represented in the story).
For the fun of it, no optimization of course, here's a quickie VB6 translation
Code:
Dim sPIstory As String
sPIstory = "For a time I stood pondering on circle sizes. The large computer mainframe quietly processed all of its assembly code. Inside my entire hope lay for figuring out an elusive expansion. Value: pi. Decimals expected soon. I nervously entered a format procedure. The mainframe processed the request. " & _
"Error. I, again entering it, carefully retyped. This iteration gave zero error printouts in all - success. Intently I waited. Soon, roused by thoughts within me, appeared narrative mnemonics relating digits to verbiage ! The idea appeared to exist but only in abbreviated fashion - little phrases typically. " & _
"Pressing on I then resolved, deciding firmly about a sum of decimals to use - likely around four hundred, presuming the computer code soon halted! Pondering these ideas, words appealed to me. But a problem of zeros did exist. Pondering more, solution subsequently appeared. Zero suggests a punctuation element. " & _
"Very novel! My thoughts were culminated. No periods, I concluded. All residual marks of punctuation = zeros. First digit expansion answer then came before me. On examining some problems unhappily arose. That imbecilic bug! The printout I possessed showed four nine as foremost decimals. Manifestly troubling. " & _
"Totally every number looked wrong. Repairing the bug took much effort. A pi mnemonic with letters truly seemed good. Counting of all the letters probably should suffice. Reaching for a record would be helpful. Consequently, I continued, expecting a good final answer from computer. First number slowly displayed on the flat screen - 3. " & _
"Good. Trailing digits apparently were right also. Now my memory scheme must probably be implementable. The technique was chosen, elegant in scheme: by self reference a tale mnemonically helpful was ensured. An able title suddenly existed - ""Circle Digits"". Taking pen I began. Words emanated uneasily. I desired more synonyms. " & _
"Speedily I found my (alongside me) Thesaurus. Rogets is probably an essential in doing this, instantly I decided. I wrote and erased more. The Rogets clearly assisted immensely. My story proceeded (how lovely!) faultlessly. The end, above all, would soon joyfully overtake. So, this memory helper story is incontestably complete. " & _
"Soon I will locate publisher. There a narrative will I trust immediately appear, producing fame. "
Dim c As Long, iChar As Integer, sPI As String
Dim lCount As Long, lPos As Long, bWrite As Boolean
sPI = String$(402, "?")
For c = 1 To Len(sPIstory)
iChar = Asc(Mid$(sPIstory, c, 1))
Select Case iChar
Case 65 To 90 ' upper case
lCount = lCount + 1
Case 97 To 122 ' lower case
lCount = lCount + 1
Case 48 To 57 ' numeric 1-9
bWrite = True
Case 32, 46 ' period or space
iChar = 0
bWrite = True
Case Else
iChar = 48
bWrite = True
End Select
If bWrite Then
bWrite = False
If lCount Then
If lCount > 9 Then
Mid$(sPI, lPos + 1, 1) = Left$(CStr(lCount), 1)
Mid$(sPI, lPos + 2, 1) = Right$(CStr(lCount), 1)
lPos = lPos + 2
Else
Mid$(sPI, lPos + 1, 1) = Left$(CStr(lCount), 1)
lPos = lPos + 1
End If
lCount = 0
End If
If iChar Then
Mid$(sPI, lPos + 1, 1) = Chr$(iChar)
lPos = lPos + 1
iChar = 0
End If
End If
Next
Mid$(sPI, 3, Len(sPI) - 2) = Mid$(sPI, 2, Len(sPI) - 2)
Mid$(sPI, 2, 1) = "."
Debug.Print sPI
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Re: Mnemonics: Anyone remember any?
I wonder if the word "problemsunhappily" hasn't made it into the dictionaries yet?;) BB
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Originally Posted by
boops boops
I wonder if the word "problemsunhappily" hasn't made it into the dictionaries yet?;) BB
Yeah, tweaking that will change 2 values, but not the overall length. Also note that I replaced the double ' in the string with a single "
Making above changes, it matches other PI values found on the net at 400 numbers past the decimal
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"problemsunhappily"
The space between them is somehow missing. So that makes it 402 now :D
(corrected the original post now)
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Originally Posted by
Pradeep1210
"problemsunhappily"
The space between them is somehow missing. So that makes it 402 now :D
Nope, not quite. Without the space >9 characters so 2 numeric values, but with the space, each word is <= 9 characters, still 2 numeric values
And thanks for sharing this. I've never seen it before.
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The point is that I can't believe the original author made that mistake. So it looks as thought the text has been retyped by someone with something less than 100% accuracy. BB
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T.W.A.I.N. (scanners)
Technology Without An Interesting Name
-Max :D
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Cable color codes:
Boy On Girl Brings Satisfaction
blue, orange, green, brown, slate
Why run backwards you'll vomit
white, red, black yellow, violet
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Originally Posted by
abhijit
Trigonometry :confused:
Close. actually it was used by airborne navigators when trying to determinier the actual Position using Stars. Stars Not satelites!
There was a Big amount of Trigonometry involved, so you wer's real Close.
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when we learned to spell geography, we learned:
George Eats Old Gray Rats And Paints Houses Yellow.
for trig, Some Old Hippy Caught Another Hippy Trippin On Acid
sin = opposite over hypotenuse, Cosine = adjacent over hypotenuse, tangent = opposite over adjacent
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The colours of the rainbow, for history buffs:
Richard of York gave battle in vain
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigio, violet.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
InvisibleDuncan
The colours of the rainbow, for history buffs:
Richard of York gave battle in vain
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigio, violet.
Or
Roy G. Biv
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
InvisibleDuncan
The colours of the rainbow, for history buffs:
Richard of York gave battle in vain
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigio, violet.
That's an interesting way to remember it. We used an acronym VIBGYOR to remember it. We never did come up with an interesting mnemonic.
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I remember many years ago taking piano lessons and learning 'Every Good Boy Does Fine' for the piano notes.
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A Pretty Smart Tourist Never Does Pot
OSI layers from my college days
Application
Presentation
Session
Transport
Network
Data
Physical
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Back in like grade 3 we had the names for the qwerty keyboard keys.
Quiet Aunt Zelda
Willy's Six eXams
Every Dad Cares
Run From Vicky To Get Becky
Young Harry Never Uses Joes Money
I'm King ,
Oh Lloyd .(stop)
Please
Can't say it ever really helped
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Never Eat Shredded Wheat
The points of the compass going clockwise. I think my sister came up with this when I was about 6 or 7.
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Originally Posted by
FunkyDexter
Never Eat Shredded Wheat
The points of the compass going clockwise. I think my sister came up with this when I was about 6 or 7.
Yep, that and "Naughty elephants squirt water".
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I Will Crush You Filthy Heathens Beneath My Flaming Iron Hooves.
It doesn't really stand for anything but it reminds me of happier times.
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George Eddy Oscar Gray Rode A Pig Home Yesterday, Geography
Bad Booz Rots Our Yellow Guts But vodka Goes Well, Resistor color code
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
LaVolpe
Planets. Though Pluto is no longer one of them
Mary's Violet Eyes Made John Sit Up and Notice . < the period is Pluto
.. the "a" in "and" presumably is a small asteroid?
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SohCahToa
Sine = Opposite/Hypotenuse
Cosine = Adjacent/Hypotenuse
Tangent = Opposite/Adjacent
Only thing that stuck in my brain in Geometry :)
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Not a great example, but it worked to remember leadership traits. It is supposed to be said like a man's name:
JED JL BUCKET II:
J- Judgement
E- Enthusiasm
D- Dedication
J- Justice
L- Loyalty
B- Bravery
U- Unselfishness
C- Courage
K- Knowledge
E- Endurance
T- Tact
I-Integrity
I-Initiative