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The Human Character System is a method of memorizing numbers by encoding them into images of humans and actions. It is a variant of the Major System , THE SYSTEM For example, the British Prime Minister, that lives in no.10 Downing Street, could represent the number '10', whenever you see this number. The first records of the Human Character System appeared in a gambling book relating to memorizing playing cards by Charles Edwards in 1965. It is therefore sometimes referred to as the EDWARDS system. The system was later used by others for World Records for number memorization such as David Thomas, the amazing British Pi record holder, Dominic O'Brien , Andi Bell and Yip Swe Chooi, who unofficially holds a 60,000 digit record for Pi. The system uses images of well known people rather than words. Numbers are coded into images. The system is based on the idea that information about people is better remembered than other kinds of information. The Edwards System requires you know a lot of people with different initials; it simply requires you to be able to link double digits to a person or memorable character. The first step to using this system is to map the numbers 00 through 99. One initial pass should be spent finding obvious number/famous people associations, e.g. 007 (07) for James Bond and 23 for Michael Jordon. Now, using a Major System mapping, come up with famous people with initials (or similar sounds, e.g., OD -> Odie from Garfield comics) for all the remaining numbers. Henceforth each person is referred to as an actor in that they will be acting in your mind; their real life professions are irrelevant but they need a unique action. Break the number to be encoded into pairs and alternate the encoding as you parse through between actor and action and use the classic principals of memory to create memorable images. |
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