More on brain training: memorizing numbers
On the Lifehacker blog recently is an article on how to encode numbers into words so you can remember them more easily. (Read the comments, though, as most of the good information is in those.)
The jist of it is that each digit is given one or more consonant sounds, and vowels are free. So 491,744,962 ends up being “rabid carrier pigeon”, for example.
If you’re looking for a challenge, here’s pi to one million decimal places and phi to 20,000 places.
Read more at Lifehacker: Memorize Long Numbers Using the “Red Table”