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[sigmaleph]

I have been exposed to many mnemonics in my life and some of them I have actually successfully memorised but for the most part they are of no practical use to me. Either they are for something I already remember without help (SOHCAHTOA, PEMDAS, which months have 30 days) or they're for something I don't ever really care about (taxonomic ranks). (does the fifth of novemeber rhyme count as a mnemonic? because that one's both)

The only ones I'm glad I learned are the SI prefixes ones from this xkcd comic

Comments

[contrarianarchon]

Interesting. SOHCAHTOA is ... uh, exactly like that one webcomic for me - I confuse the normal equations but I also confuse the mnemnomic enough that it's not a huge help.

(I've never really had any trouble with SI magnitude prefixes? So IDK. Different subtleties of what's easy to remember, I guess)

[brin_bellway]

Don't think I've heard of "SOHCAHTOA" before.

*googles*

Oh, *that*. The one we used was "Oscar had a hold on Arthur" (with the sin/cos/tan ordering left implicit), which personally I did find very helpful.

[wingedcatgirl]

I mostly only remember SOHCAHTOA because it was in The World Ends With You. I had a different way of remembering it before, but I forgot it now.

I remember order of operations implicitly now, but that's only after years of practice with the mmenmenonic.

And I still have to count on my knuckles to remember which months have 30 days, at least ten years after learning this trick.

[contrarianarchon]

Oh yeah. I just ... don't, when it comes to months. I don't even really have a perfect sense of the order they're in.

[wingedcatgirl]

I think I just memorized their order with lots of practice, and I still feel less than confident.

[contrarianarchon]

Yeah, I have a calendar on my laptop and was never very good at deliberate memorization at the best of times. So I cannot be bothered.