<div dir="ltr">Also OT. <div><br></div><div>An interesting read about memory tricks is "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer. It does destroy the romance of eidetic memory, somewhat, but if you've ever needed to memorise the position of every card in 54 packs, it's very good reading.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 June 2013 23:40, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Warning, off topic.<div><br></div><div>During a tour of the USA our family heard a human memory chip at a street show who was guessing the location of places when people suggested to him a random town or postcode. My kids thought to toss him a wild one by shouting out our postcode. He grinned and politely asked if there were Australian. When they indicated yes he grinned and after a moments hesitation, correctly quoted the name of our suburb. Later as he counted coins from his cat-in-the-hat prop he explained that Australians made it really easy to memorise postcodes with some basic rules and algorithms that have already been mentioned.<div>
<br></div><div>I'm still not sure, Learning Klingon still seems easier by comparison.<br><div>
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<br><div><div>On 30/05/2013, at 11:57 AM, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Phone numbers will never have arithmetic done to them, but I'm sure postcodes will - to find neighbouring regions, for example, for mailouts.<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 May 2013 09:18, Mark Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msc@luther.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">msc@luther.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">There is a quite simple rule that I teach my students<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Data is formatted as a number only if it might be used in a formula.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Postcodes and phone numbers won’t ever be used in a formula so they are text.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mark Scott<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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