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- ^Introduction - How to Remember Numbers\
-
- Of all the areas concerned with memory, the most difficult category to
- remember is, without doubt, numbers.
-
- Numbers are completely %abstract\ and %intangible\ - they cannot be pictured
- in the mind. They are also some of the most important things that people
- have to remember - telephone numbers, PIN numbers, addresses, credit card
- numbers, prices, bank account numbers, statistics, dates - the list goes on
- and on.
-
- Fortunately, the chore of remembering numbers can be made easy by learning a
- simple >Phonetic Alphabet\, which substitutes letters for numbers. Using
- this system, numbers can be transposed to letters and then words, which can
- be pictured, and therefore memorised.
-
- Tutorial 8 explains the rules of the Phonetic Alphabet, and how digits can
- be transposed into letters. Tutorial 9 shows how a string of digits can be
- transposed into words. Finally, Tutorial 10 demonstrates how |any\ long -
- digit number can easily be memorised, by combining the rules of the Phonetic
- Alphabet with two of the memory systems you have already learned - the Link
- system and Association of Ideas.~