Re: CHAT: Parallelism
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 15:47 |
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dunn patrick w wrote:
> Is only one. Hence, we remember the order of planets not by remembering
> nine units in a row (incidently, this applies particularly to short term
> memory rather than long term memory), but as a single unit, a sentence:
> "My very educated mother just baked us nine pies."
Strangely, I never heard that mnemonic until well after I'd committed
their order to memory. (Incidentally, that sentence only this year
became accurate - Pluto had been closer than Neptune).
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