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Originally Posted by naerey  Thanks for clearing up...
I've read some of the GMS manual and... this is what troubles me most:
Tell me if I got this right:
I'll have to assign some strange letters to each number (from 1 to 1000 apparently??) and remember them very good.
And with this I'll be able to memorize long strings of numbers... thanks to the letters?
But isn't memorizing the 'table' of numbers>letters *very hard* and easy to forget?? Sound's crazy to me.. |
Here is how the alpha-numeric code works. Every number has a letter as you provided. The letters are used to create useful images for memorization. So for example, the number 30 would be broken down into 3=B and 0=M. You take the letters and choose a word for your image: B+M = BeaM(I imagine a metal construction beam).
Now, all of these 'image-words' are provided for you in a reference book, so you don't even have to worry about creating your own. There are special techniques used to learn these codes, different from rote-repetition. By the time you finish the first section of the course, you will have all the codes for 00-99 memorized to a reflex level.
For numbers 000-999, you can memorize them at your leisure. Knowing the alpha-numeric code allows you to very easily create a new image for a new three-digit number if you don't have/don't want to use the reference book.
-Zachary