Mnemonic Devices
Mnemonic Devices
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Over in thread240-177089 there's a discussion about mnemonic devices for the resistor color code.
What are your favorite mnemonic devices?
A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream
(Spelling arithmetic)
Every Good Boy Does Fine
(Staff lines of the treble clef)
FACE -- rhymes with SPACE
(Staff spaces on the treble clef)
Good Boys Do Fine Always
(Staff lines on the bass clef)
All Cows Eat Grass or All Cars Eat Gas
(Staff Spaces on the bass clef)
The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do
(The Mho Hardness Scale: Talc, Gypsum, Calcite, Fluorite, Apatite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Topaz, Carborundum, Diamond)
Putting the knuckles of your two fists together correspond to long and short months of the Julian calendar.
(The dips between the knuckles of one hand correspond to February, April and June. The dips continue after two adjacent knuckles (July and August) for September and November.)
These are ones I learned in grade school. They really stick with you.
What are your favorite mnemonic devices?
A Rat In The House May Eat The Ice Cream
(Spelling arithmetic)
Every Good Boy Does Fine
(Staff lines of the treble clef)
FACE -- rhymes with SPACE
(Staff spaces on the treble clef)
Good Boys Do Fine Always
(Staff lines on the bass clef)
All Cows Eat Grass or All Cars Eat Gas
(Staff Spaces on the bass clef)
The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do
(The Mho Hardness Scale: Talc, Gypsum, Calcite, Fluorite, Apatite, Orthoclase, Quartz, Topaz, Carborundum, Diamond)
Putting the knuckles of your two fists together correspond to long and short months of the Julian calendar.
(The dips between the knuckles of one hand correspond to February, April and June. The dips continue after two adjacent knuckles (July and August) for September and November.)
These are ones I learned in grade school. They really stick with you.





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(Ukulele tuning)
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Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
(Colours of the rainbow)
Just spent last night teaching it to my son
Kevin Hammond
Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
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Kevin Hammond
Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
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Countries in NATO (in 1980)
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(Planets of our solar system, prior to Pluto getting the boot)
ewh,
I remember the trig functions by:
Oscar Had A Heap Of Apples
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It's bad, but has always stuck in my head.
Brave Boys Rape Our Young Girls, But Violet gives Willingly.
(resister color code)
Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 02-10-07)
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The slightly less crude version (probably my Irish upbringing)
Bold Boys Ravish Our Young Girls, But Violet gives Willingly
Kevin Hammond
Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
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Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle / Battle Ends and Down Goes Charles' Father (sharps/flats in key signatures - and if you deal from the middle of the pack, the keys they go with)
A.
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May I F... You Eleanor Rigby (M/I = F/Y = E/R)
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P - Preview
I - Introduce
S - Show
S - Summarize
Or, if you're of a more delicate bent, use the last letter of each step, and you get"
W
E
W
E
I remember them now, almost forty years later...
old field guy
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NozzleTwister
Houston, Texas
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In the correct (reverse) order, so a lady teacher told me, the mnemonic is:
"Virgins In Bed Get Your Organs Red"
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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i.e the red light goes on the port side which is the left
M
--
Dr Michael F Platten
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(The first 18 elements / 3 rows of the Periodic Table.)
"My Very Easy Method Just Simplifies Us Naming Planets."
(Unfortunately, this now reads "My Very Easy Method Just Simplifies Us Naming", which doesn't work as well!)
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There is no red port left, it has all gone down my throat, indicating that the throat halyard goes on the Port side.
Stephen Argles
Land & Marine
www.landandmarine.com
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She Made Him Eat Onions - order of the great lakes
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For inductive and capacitive circuits.
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And a white pine has 5 needles - W-H-I-T-E - while other pines like the J-A-C-K only have 4 per little bundle - don't know if that's true, but it's what they taught us at the nature center in 5th grade. Funny what you remember...
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PORT wine is RED
LEFT is shorter than RIGHT, PORT is shorter than STARBOARD
From when I did my ONC in Mechanical Engineering --
F*** Your Mistress In the Engine Room (F/Y = M/I = E/R)
(all of the above from 40+ years ago!)
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I V X L C D M
1 5 10 50 100 500 1000
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction
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Pseudo-Latin for Exponentiation, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction--in groups--from [the] inside out.
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Sin = O/H, Cos = A/H, Tan = O/A
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction (Order of operations)
Then of course there is the whole list of bar recipes relying on Mnemonic devices
I ain't never seen a hearse with a luggage rack.-GS
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Sin = O/H....
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Kinky People Cry Out For Great Sex
(kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)
Hg
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Red Right Returning
Red light is always on the right when returning to port. (In the U.S.)
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your version (BBROGVGW) with gold and silver is obviously the superior version. A long time ago an old gent gave me that tip too.
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MERCEDES = My Ego Requires Cars Evoking Delusional Enhanced Status
I'm reviewing mammalian organ systems and just came up with:
My Resolve Is Completely RUINED for the ten organ systems.
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How much do YOU owe?
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
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The divisions of geologic time:
Cambrian / Ordovician / Silurian / Devonian / Carboniferous / Permian / Triassic / Jurassic / Cretaceous / Paleocene / Eocene / Oligocene / Miocene / Pliocene / Pleistocene / Recent
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Strings on a guitar
Tommy On A Ship Of His Caught A Herring
tan = Opp/Adj, Sin = Opp/Hyp and Cos = Adj/Hyp
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M/I = F/Y = E/R what's that mean? I have no idea...
and I can't believe no one's brought out this moldy oldie:
I before E
except after C
or when sounding like A
like in neighbor or weigh
English is weird
cheers,
rad
"According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist."
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moment/I=stress/distance from neutral axis=E/radius of curvature
I hope you are wearing steel toe-capped boots
Cheers
Greg Locock
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Somerset for ya!
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see, like I said, I'm kicking myself... :)
cheers,
rad
"According to my calculations the problem doesn't exist."
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Silly old hitler, caused a havoc, to our armies
- sin=o/h, cos =a/h, tan = o/a
or
The cat sat
on an orange
and howled horribly
Which is a vertical mnemonic - t=o/a, c = a/h, s =o/h.
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Bad Beer Rots Our Young Guts But Vodka Goes Well Get Some Now
Of course I learned that in a military electronics course along with the other one posted above.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
--Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
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Bears Eat And Digest Garbage Can Food
The order of the flats(b)
Fat Cows Go Down And Eat Bugs
The order of the sharps(#)
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WIFE: Washing, Ironing, F___ing, Etcetera!
I don't think it has been forgiven yet!
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Sometimes I only open my mouth to swap feet...
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Aisle, alter, hymn
Correct order for the three rings in a relationship ...
Engagement ring, wedding ring, suffering
Colours of a rainbow, from our Chemistry teacher, who used to be a Smartie tester ....
Rowntrees Of York Give Best In Value
Childs handwriting (or adult morse code) practice, containing the whole alphabet in lower case...
A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
(There is a shorter sentence, something with dozen liquor jugs, but it is deemed unsuitable for children, and so not used and I've forgotten it.)
Strings on a guitar ...
Every American Daughter Gets Babies Easily
Order of the recurring digits in sevenths' fractions ....
Just keep doubling
eg 7 14 28 56, so for example 4/7 is
0.571428571428571428571428571428571428571428571428...
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What's next in the sequence ....
1,2,4,8,16, .... ?
If putting dots randomly on a circle and joining them, you cut the circle into successively 1,2,4,8,16,31 pieces.
But if you take the digits as being numerically the first letters of the old Cornish proverb Alien Birds Do Have Peculiar Feathers (with alphabet wrapping), then the answer is 32. So who is to say what answer is really correct on so called IQ tests? If you cut 4 dimensional space with 3D cuts, I believe the number of pieces you successively get is
1,2,4,8,16,31,....
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"Pack my bag with five dozen liquor jugs"
How razorback-jumping frogs can level six piqued gymnasts!
Back in June we delivered oxygen equipment of the same size.
A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats.
All questions asked by five watch experts amazed the judge.
Crazy Fredericka bought many very exquisite opal jewels.
Sixty zippers were quickly picked from the woven jute bag.
John Prady, give me a black walnut box of quite small size.
Have a pick; twenty six letters -- no forcing a jumbled quiz!
Big July earthquakes confound zany experimental vow.
Six big devils from Japan quickly forgot how to waltz.
My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit.
Foxy parsons quiz & cajole the lovably dim wiki-girl.
Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen.
Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.
Adjusting quiver and bow, Zompyc killed the fox.
My faxed joke won a pager in the cable TV quiz show.
Woven silk pyjamas exchanged for blue quartz.
Brawny gods just flocked up to quiz and vex him.
A wizard’s job is to vex chumps quietly in fog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The jay, pig, fox, zebra and my wolves quack!
Blowzy red vixens fight for a quick jump.
Cozy sphinx waves quart jug of bad milk.
A very bad quack might jinx zippy fowls.
Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.
Few quips galvanized the mock jury box.
Five quacking zephyrs jolt my wax bed.
The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz.
How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.
Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz.
Quick Baz, get my woven flax jodhpurs.
Bright vixens jump; dozy fowl quack.
Quick wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.
Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
Sex-charged fop blew my junk TV quiz
Junk MTV quiz graced by fox whelps
Bawds jog, flick quartz, vex nymphs.
Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex.
Fox nymphs grab quick jived waltz.
Brick quiz whangs jumpy veldt fox.
DJs flock by when MTV ax quiz prog.
FOETS
Social Drinker with a Golfing Problem
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Biv X. Z. Felt jr. knows Guy Q. Mac, PhD.
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it's only 31 if there is a central area (if the points are not symmetrically arranged, which is one possibility for "randomly distributed").
6 symmetrically distributed points yields 30 areas.
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Together they're a nice palindromic name for a veterinarian who specializes in fish.
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CODE
.XX.
.XX.
X..X
CODE
.. 06 07 ..
.. 10 11 ..
13 .. .. 16
CODE
12 06 07 09
08 10 11 05
13 03 02 16
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CODE
zz 06 38 .. 30 .. 22 .. 14 46
.. 07 39 .. 31 .. 23 .. 15
16 .. 08 40 .. 32 .. 24 ..
.. 17 .. 09 41 .. 33 .. 25
26 .. 18 .. 01 42 .. 34 ..
.. 27 .. 10 .. 02 43 .. 35
36 .. 19 .. 11 .. 03 44 ..
.. 28 .. 20 .. 12 .. 04 45
xx ww
36 bounces off 28 to put 37 in position yy.
Note the tricky wrapping and bouncing for 46 in this example where it should go in position ww but wrapping makes it xx or XX (depending on the order you prefer to wrap things), and then yy (which is occupied by 37), so bouncing makes it zz, and then wrapping finally finds a space for it. That's all so complicated, it's easier just to remember where it goes: 2nd down on the right!
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For the color of buoys in a channel:
SIR = "saliendo izquierda roja" (in your wayout red on your left)
To teach that red light goes on port side:
ABC = "a babor, colorado" (on port side, red)
There is a short poem also, to teach the rules to follow by a vessel in open sea to decide in what senses to alter course and other basic ones.
Agustín Tomás
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A.
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Motion (of force)
Flux
Current
To remember MFC, we had a mnemonic device. It's been such a long time I'm not sure if I remember it.
Mary's Fuzzy Canine?
or somethign like that.
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anyone else from the Navy care to chime in?
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ELI Voltage leads current
ICE Current leads voltage
Agustín Tomás
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ELI E= L* dI/dt
ICE I= C* dE/dt
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Real Old Yokels Guzzle Beer in Vaults.
We had a rather tubby science teacher!
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All the pretty colours of the rainbow
Kevin Hammond
Mechanical Design Engineer
Derbyshire, UK
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by Dr. James D. Livingston
So a fellow named Ohm with felicity
Dreamed up a law of great simplicity
V equals I R
Is what made Ohm a star
It's the basic law of electricity
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"Man very early made jars stand up nearly perpendicular"
(Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto)
And from my Sea King helicopter days (17+ years ago), a way to remember the sequence of flight control channels going to the rotor head:
"Lieutenant Colonels Fly Yo-yos"
(Lateral, Collective, Fore/Aft, Yaw)
They do work.
Randall Shelaga C.E.T.
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Thirty days have November, April, June and September, of twenty and eight there is only one, the remains are of thirty-one.
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Colours of the spectrum
real = red
old = orange
yokels = yellow
guzzle = green
beer = blue
in = indigo
vaults = violet
Clearly it's an English mnemonic!
I need to think of one to remind me to drink more whiskey.... (Scotch, that is)
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The Bard of Banff Whisky Or Whiskey?
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A Scotsman who spells
Whisky with a n ‘e’,
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.
In the USA and Ireland,
it’s spelt with an ‘e’
but in Scotland
it’s real ‘Whisky’.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an ‘e’,
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of ‘Scotch Whisky’.
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There are sentences and poems in 14 different languages, and even a self-referencial story that represents the first 402 digits. Any punctuation that isn't a period represents zero. It begins...
For a time I stood pondering on circle sizes. The large computer mainframe quietly processed all of its assembly code. Inside my entire hope lay for figuring out an elusive expansion. Value: pi. Decimals expected soon.
Similarly, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiWordplay.html has several pi mnemonics as well, including the beginning of a parody of Poe's The Raven that gives 740 digits.
The whole poem can be found at http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikerav.htm