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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

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[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)