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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 emeril »

p-e-w wrote: post #11
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.

maybe so, but it's unlikely, in the past, she would have been using an obscure memory test on the internet but instead would have been using something available right in the house

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by calebegg »

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).

Funnily enough, your comment is now the top search result for that query....

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by Loughla »

4ggr0 wrote: post #60
loganc2342 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

20 year old level 11 here :)

24 year old level 11, seems like level 11 is the sweet-spot for HNers.

Late 30's, level 12.

My guess is that level 11 makes sense to most people, because it's the same amount of numbers as a full phone number, so you can get a cadence going.

2-232-340-1010 is pretty easy to remember, because it already exists as a common cadence, even if it's not in the US format like I use.

Re: My mom left behind some number code

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Post by LanceH »

aaron695 wrote: post #12
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, u…

Whoa. Did this exact test in '95.

They made a point of this being your memory span, but it's definitely something which can be trained. This is something we would do as part of (professional) language transcription/translation, just recording mass amounts of numbers, because those tend to be important.

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