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The mneumonic major system. Once I learned it by heart, it helped me memorize all kinds of numbers: cards, IDs, passwords, addresses…
That sounds a lot more complicated than just memorizing the number itself. How long did it take before you felt comfortable with this?
To give an extreme example:
But to be fair, I never end up with nice sentences. It's more like "Thank you, rainbow. Clock firework" and I imagine myself thanking a rainbow and telling it to "clock firework", whatever that means…
As to how long, I think it could've been a couple of months doing a dozen or so conversions. In total it's a very small investment of time, assuming you space it out and don't cram. It really helps to use the Wikipedia mnemonics (like how 4 is kinda like a mirrored R).
Thank you. I'll give it a shot, since the example you gave is awesome.