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10mm is The
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Even in this day of the ubiquitous cell phone, there are some numbers that I commit to memory.

Close family phone numbers
My social security number
My drivers license number
My car license plate numbers

What number do you memorize?




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1. It's the loneliest number.




"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
 
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Originally posted by Fenris:
Even in this day of the ubiquitous cell phone, there are some numbers that I commit to memory.

Close family phone numbers
My social security number
My drivers license number
My car license plate numbers

What number do you memorize?


I have memorized exactly what you listed. I also still remember the landline phone number of the house I grew up in and the address. I actually use the phone number as a secondary passcode on something. Also for some weird reason walking home from elementary school one day I memorized a license plate of a car parked on the side of our street to tell my mom and I still remember that license plate number to this day.




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I remember the same important numbers. I also remember 2 HS girlfriends license numbers, several school friends phone numbers, the phone number of a girl I had one date with, and the checking account number from a bank that doesn’t exist anymore. No clue why. The wife’s SS number but I don’t think that counts.
 
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I remember my social security and my phone number. That's because I've had them for a long time.

In practice, I don't remember much. I use alarms, outlook reminders, and such like my password manager. My theory is the brain capacity I don't take up in remembering stuff, I can put to use for processing and analyzing information.



"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
 
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A childhood friends phone number, been over 40 years since I last dialed it.

My german military personnel number asigned to me over 30 years ago.
 
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587-3438 and 587-3477
My number and my best friend's number from 1968.
Last dialed in July 1969, just before we went from Mt. Home Idaho to Oklahoma City, his grandparents house to watch the moon landing.




"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב!
 
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1. It's the loneliest number.


That you'll ever do.



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867-5309


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BR-549
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Safe codes
Alarm code
Social Security #
Time Clock #
wife's phone #
our 2 car license plates.
 
Posts: 1688 | Location: NORTHEAST INDIANA | Registered: August 18, 2006Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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My brother has great memory. He still knows the VIN of his first car from 30 years ago.

Sadly, I forget birthdays of family & friends.

Most I memorize are multiple logins I use daily.
 
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It's not so much the current numbers I remember - D/L, SSN, a couple of phone numbers - it's the completely useless numbers that waste memory space.

My Navy service number that they issued before SSN's became a thing.

Our home phone at the farm from 60 years ago.

House number from the same farm.

Mailing address at the farm.

OTOH, it took me nearly 2 years to not have to look up the number of my cell...




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I remember:
Driver license
License plates every vehicle I've ever had
Social security
Bank account
Every phone # I've ever had
Credit cards in my wallet


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Social Security number.

My Moms land line number, same phone number since I was a kid.

Credit card number of my most used card.

Moms birthday.
 
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Old address numbers from childhood and the places we've lived, SSN's for specific people, several phone numbers for clients and companies I deal with daily, if I put them in an autodial I'd forget them like we all do with todays automation.
 
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The numbers one through twenty,
( If they are written on your digits, is that considered remembering?)





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587-3438 and 587-3477
My number and my best friend's number from 1968.
Last dialed in July 1969, just before we went from Mt. Home Idaho to Oklahoma City, his grandparents house to watch the moon landing.


In 1968 my family's phone number was 26268.

Now, SIGforum brainiacs, where did I live?





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My son has a photographic memory. Never forgets a face or a name. Great thing for a police detective. He passed this to his daughter.

We found that at an early age she would watch us use a pass code to get into a phone or computer for her to play on and that code was no longer secure. She remembers everything you ever did and every number. I pity her future husband.

I can remember everything from my childhood but can’t remember what I had for breakfast.
 
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1. It's the loneliest number.


... that you'll ever do.
 
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