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My mom left behind some number code

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Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by p-e-w »

wintorez wrote: post #9

Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.

Not only would it have been left unanswered, it would have been almost impossible to get an answer even with enormous resources. You could have paid a detective agency millions of dollars and the chance that one of them would stumble upon an obscure memory test containing the numbers would have been slim to none, even with tens of thousands of man-hours dedicated to the task.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by aaron695 »

isitthough42 wrote: post #10

This is simply answered by https://www.google.com/search?q=925+8642+37654+627418 The first page results would have answered it already - better than the stackexchange answers quoting random slides: 925 8642 37654 627418 0401473 19223530 486854332 2531971768 85129619450 918546942937 Figure 1: Digit Memory Test by Howard (1983, in Bernstein et al., 2008:215).

"Essentials of Psychology" Douglas A. Bernstein, Peggy W. Nash which is on the net has it (spaced out - "9 2 5")

They reference Howard which doesn't seem to be 'available'

Here is a test of your immediate memory span (Howard, 1983). Ask someone to read to you the numbers in the top row at the rate of about one per second; then try to repeat them back in the same order. Then try the next row, and the one after that, until you make a mistake. Your immediate memory span is the maximum number of items you can repeat back perfectly.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by userbinator »

A few hours ago, while searching for something completely unrelated (decoding serial numbers for some obscure equipment) on Google, this odd result showed up and I decided to have a glance out of curiosity, but now to see someone else submitted this exact same page to HN and that it's on the front page? A very puzzling coincidence indeed!?

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by [deleted] »

userbinator wrote: post #13

A few hours ago, while searching for something completely unrelated (decoding serial numbers for some obscure equipment) on Google, this odd result showed up and I decided to have a glance out of curiosity, but now to see someone else submitted this exact same page to HN and that it's on the front page? A very puzzling coincidence indeed!?

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Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by bnegreve »

wintorez wrote: post #9

Posts like this remind me what an amazing phenomenon Internet is. 20 years ago a question like this would have been left unanswered. I hope we get to protect and keep Internet for generations to come.

I don't know .. is it that more of these questions get answered, or that when one of these questions gets an answer, we all learn about it?

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by robin_reala »

userbinator wrote: post #13

A few hours ago, while searching for something completely unrelated (decoding serial numbers for some obscure equipment) on Google, this odd result showed up and I decided to have a glance out of curiosity, but now to see someone else submitted this exact same page to HN and that it's on the front page? A very puzzling coincidence indeed!?

It was earlier on Stackexchange’s list of “Hot Questions” that appear in the sidebar on their sites. Presumably Google prioritises those in the SERPs.
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