Captain Moonlight: As easy as 1, 10, 11
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Your support makes all the difference.PLEASE sit up. Torpor is not an attractive condition. The brain needs exercise as much as the body. Perhaps you should go along to the Student Memory Championships, being held this morning at Simpson's-in-the-Strand. There you will find young people memorising 480-digit binary numbers, 200 concrete nouns, sequences of playing cards, that sort of thing. It is sponsored by Ernst & Young (accountants, naturally). The point of it? Very useful for passing exams, and later, for gambling.
How do you remember a 480-digit binary number? Break it down into groups, and imagine them as musical notes. Then, should you get, for example, FF, make up a visual symbol, like Fred Flintstone. Easy. If it's too late, or if you live too far away, you might like to try it at home with the Captain. Just memorise and repeat this:
110010101010101011110111010111
110001111100011110001111110001
111100000101010101001001011000
110101010101010101011011001101
010101010101010111100011001010
100011001010101010101111110000
110010101010100100110100100010
110001111000001101010101010100
101001001001001001000101010101
010100100101010010101010101010
010101001101010101001000110010
001000100011001010101011111000
101010101010101101010101010101
1010101010101010101001010101011
001001010010100101010010100101
00101001010010101010101010100.
Good luck] - oh yes, and Happy Christmas.
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