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From: jcf@world.std.com (Joseph C Fineman)
Subject: Re: Pi mnemoncs
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 18:26:33 GMT
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jirifkin@ruccs.rutgers.edu (Jay Rifkin) writes:

>(I've noticed that you get in real trouble when you hit a 0. I was hoping
>to think of a sentence which would include the word 'zero' at that point,
>but I couldn't think of such a continuation before running out of patience.)

One might adopt the convention that words of 10 or more letters
represent 0.

Here's an old one for e = 2.7182818285...:
To destroy a building, we detonate a quantity of hydrogen bombs.

With a little luck, you can make up sentences for people's phone
numbers that describe the people.  In ancient times, when I lived on
the south shore of Long Island, my number was

Finemans retreat situated on a tiny estuary.

My mother, back in the days before all-number exchanges, delighted in
the mnemonic

In a tub sit I

or, when in a raffish mood,

On a pot sit I.
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