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Virgins Are Rare

Volts = Amps X Resistance

This is a meumonic to remember the 12 pairs of cranial nerves :
On Old Olympus Towering Top, A French And German Viewed A Hop =
Olfactory, Optic, Occulomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facil, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory and Hypoglossal…

Now out of these how do you remember how many are sensory, how many are mixed and how many are motor?

The answer : 3, 4, 5… Confused?? It is 3 sensory, 4 mixed and 5 motor

To remember the 4 mixed nerves, the names of which are important, the mneumonic used is : The Fat Girl Views = Trigeminal Facial Glossopharyngeal Vagus!!

Hope you find this useful…

Certainly, you can use the memory techniques from here to memorize the phone book, but why? How many times can you really show that?

This trick will imply that you’ve memorized the phone book.

Imagine this: You hand out 9 cards or slips of paper, each with a different digit from 1 to 9, and ask your spectator to mix them up. He is then to hand any 3 to one person, any of the remaining 3 to another person, and keep the remaining 3. With the help of the spectators, you generate a random equation, and ask the spectators to total it up. Once you’re given the total, you instantly recall a number in the local phone book ending with those digits!

How?

First, the mathematical part:

If you’re using a deck of cards, just get out the Ace through 9 of any suit. Otherwise, use slips of paper with 1 through 9 written on them.

They are mixed up by the spectators, and split among 3 people as described above.

You ask the spectator farthest to your left to choose any of their three digits, and call it out. You write it down as the hundreds digit of a number. You ask the person in the middle for any one of their numbers, and you write that down as the tens digit. Finally, you ask the rightmost spectator for any one of their numbers, and write that down as the ones digit of the first number.

As the numbers are given to you, you take them back, so they can’t call the same number twice.

The above process is repeated twice more, to generate two more 3-digit numbers. These three 3-digit numbers are then added up.

Let’s say person A wound up with cards 3, 4 and 6, spectator B wound up with cards 1, 7 and 8, and spectator C wound up with 2, 5 and 9. They might create the equation this way:

382
419
675 (total=1,476)

Or, the equation might wind up being:

472
615
389 (total=1,476)

…or some other arrangement.

It seems like this process could generate an impossible large amount of numbers. Actually, with the numbers 1 through 9 used to create three 3-digit numbers like this, you can only arrive at 198 different totals.

The only possible totals you can generate are the multiples of 9, ranging from 774 to 2,556 (every 9 multiple inbetween is possible).

If you’re comfortable linking and memorizing numbers, you need to create a list of phone numbers in the local phone book that end in 0774, 0783, 0792, and so on, up to 2556.

Using a reverse phone lookup utility on the internet, combined with the zip code and prefixes for the area, you can actually generate a list of suitable numbers and their associated names with minimal hassle. Don’t forget to make sure that each name is actually printed in the current edition of the phone book you’ll be using!

Once you have the list, you need to make the links from the numbers to the names. 198 links can be a challenge, so don’t try this if you’re just starting out in memory.

Obviously, this feat works better for big shows in larger metropolitan areas for which you have time to prepare with the local phone book.

The funny thing is that, while you’re actually doing an impressively large memory feat, you get credit for doing a memory feat on a far larger scale!

No, you won’t use this feat all the time. However, used at the right time and right place, you’ll leave a lasting impression!

on the lines of a g staff you have the notes

-f
-d
-b
-g
-e

which can be formed from bottom to top into the sentence Every Good Boy Does Fine

The notes between the lines form from bottom to top the word face

That’s for treble clef. I use (for lines, working from bottom) Every Green Bus Drives Fast and space rhymes with F A C E!!

For Bass Clef, I use Girls Buy Dolls For Aunty (for lines) and spaces are All Cows Eat Grass!! 

Need help with The distance, speed, time stuff?? this is good

Dads
Silly Triangle

Distance= speed x time
Speed= distance/time
Time= distance/speed

Cover the part of the triangle you’re looking for and the equation for it will show! Hope this helps

This is how I remember it
Soil is made up of humus, air, water, organisms and minerals so just remember that:

hungry
aligators
wear
orange
mittens!

Do you know which one means left and which means right?

Below are a collection of various ways to remember which is which.

Port and starboard are terms used on ships. Imagine a ship coming into a port. There are lights in the water, a red and a green one. The ship is to sail in between these two lights. So which one is on the left and which one on the right?

Here is a nice short sentence to help you remember:
“No red port left”

Ok, so you could imagine yourself in a restaurant of a ship and you ask the waiter for some red wine. He tells you that there is no red port left.

This means the red light is on the left, and so too is port side.

Therefore starboard is on the right!

Do you remember the green gras of home.
So you should when you are on the water and want to return to port or home
because gras means “green at starboard”
if you keep those lights on starboard you will reach the port

this trick doesn’t work in all countries some have a reversed system

How about this way:

PORT has the same number of letters in it as LEFT

Port and Left have the same number of letters in them, 4. So when you aren’t sure which is which, just count the number of letters in the word Port!

The word “posh” derives from port and starboard because in the early 20th C and 19th C, the richer people and those of a higher social sphere would wave as they left port on a ship and arrived home again. They would have to wave on a different side going in and out, on the port going out and starboard going home.

Port Out Starboard Home

A good way to remember it if you can link it to this easy to remember piece of knowledge. Also it could help if you have problems remembering to spell POSH!

If you need to learn a formula, and need to rearrange it, the easiest way is just to learn one part of it and use a cross to find out the others. For example, I’ve put an image of the mass = moles * Mr .

Then because mass is on the top of a multiplication sign, to get mass it’s moles * Mr and to get moles it’s mass / Mr (because the line looks like a fraction.

Memorize with the peg system.

Here is a good way to remember 10 things.
The peg words that you ‘hang’ the things to remember on rime on the numbers.

1= bun (eating a burger with x between the buns)
2= glue (x is stuck in glue)
3= key (you open a door with key, and out falls a lot of x’s)
4= store (you enter a store, and on all the shelves are x in different sizes and colors)
5= drive (you are out driving and suddenly crash into an oversized x)
6= mix (you are mixing a new pie or something, and the ingredient is a lot of x’s)
7= heaven (as you stand on the escalator to heaven, you se a lot of x’s OR you fly a jet plane and bump into x’s floating in the sky)
8= ape (you are in the zoo, and as you come to the ape you are amazed to se it playing around with a x)
9= dine (you are in a restaurant, the waiter comes with a plate with your food, to your amazement it’s a x)
10= pen (you look around for a pen and find one shaped like x)

If one of the things you have to remember is to pay you electric bill you and it’s the 4th thing you could imagine that when you enter the store the are statuettes of Bill Clinton holding a giant battery in his hand on all the shelves.

The example written after the peg word is an example, if you find a better way to imagine it, use it instead! It will be easier for you to remember.

With a little practice, it’s not hard to recall the decimal equivalents of fractions up to 10/11!

First, there are 3 you should know already:

1/2 = .5
1/3 = .333…
1/4 = .25

Starting with the thirds, of which you already know one:

1/3 = .333…
2/3 = .666…

You also know 2 of the 4ths, as well, so there’s only one new one to learn:

1/4 = .25
2/4 = 1/2 = .5
3/4 = .75

Fifths are very easy. Take the numerator (the number on top), double it, and stick a decimal in front of it.

1/5 = .2
2/5 = .4
3/5 = .6
4/5 = .8

There are only two new decimal equivalents to learn with the 6ths:

1/6 = .1666…
2/6 = 1/3 = .333…
3/6 = 1/2 = .5
4/6 = 2/3 = .666…
5/6 = .8333…

What about 7ths? We’ll come back to them at the end. They’re very unique.

8ths aren’t that hard to learn, as they’re just smaller steps than 4ths. If you have trouble with any of the 8ths, find the nearest 4th, and add .125 if needed:

1/8 = .125
2/8 = 1/4 = .25
3/8 = .375
4/8 = 1/2 = .5
5/8 = .625
6/8 = 3/4 = .75
7/8 = .875

9ths are almost too easy:

1/9 = .111…
2/9 = .222…
3/9 = .333…
4/9 = .444…
5/9 = .555…
6/9 = .666…
7/9 = .777…
8/9 = .888…

10ths are very easy, as well. Just put a decimal in front of the numerator:

1/10 = .1
2/10 = .2
3/10 = .3
4/10 = .4
5/10 = .5
6/10 = .6
7/10 = .7
8/10 = .8
9/10 = .9

Remember how easy 9ths were? 11th are easy in a similar way, assuming you know your multiples of 9:

1/11 = .090909…
2/11 = .181818…
3/11 = .272727…
4/11 = .363636…
5/11 = .454545…
6/11 = .545454…
7/11 = .636363…
8/11 = .727272…
9/11 = .818181…
10/11 = .909090…

As long as you can remember the pattern for each fraction, it is quite simple to work out the decimal place as far as you want or need to go!

Oh, I almost forgot! We haven’t done 7ths yet, have we?

One-seventh is an interesting number:

1/7 = .142857142857142857…

For now, just think of one-seventh as: .142857

See if you notice any pattern in the 7ths:

1/7 = .142857…
2/7 = .285714…
3/7 = .428571…
4/7 = .571428…
5/7 = .714285…
6/7 = .857142…

Notice that the 6 digits in the 7ths ALWAYS stay in the same order, and the starting digit is the only thing that changes!

If you know your multiples of 14 up to 6, it isn’t difficult to work out where to begin the decimal number. Look at this:

For 1/7, think “1 * 14″, giving us .14 as the starting point.
For 2/7, think “2 * 14″, giving us .28 as the starting point.
For 3/7, think “3 * 14″, giving us .42 as the starting point.

For 4/14, 5/14 and 6/14, you’ll have to adjust upward by 1:

For 4/7, think “(4 * 14) + 1″, giving us .57 as the starting point.
For 5/7, think “(5 * 14) + 1″, giving us .71 as the starting point.
For 6/7, think “(6 * 14) + 1″, giving us .85 as the starting point.

Practice these, and you’ll have the decimal equivalents of everything from 1/2 to 10/11 at your finger tips!

If you want to demonstrate this skill to other people, and you know your multiplication tables up to the hundreds for each number 1-9, then give them a calculator and ask for a 2-digit number (3-digit number, if you’re up to it!) to be divided by a 1-digit number.

If they give you 96 divided by 7, for example, you can think, “Hmm… the closes multiple of 7 is 91, which is 13 * 7, with 5 left over. So the answer is 13 and 5/7, or: 13.7142857!”