simplicio comments on Open Thread: March 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: simplicio 22 March 2010 07:03:30PM *  2 points [-]

This is totally irrelevant, but I just had to share it.

I use the Tony Marloshkovips system for memorizing numbers, such as phone numbers, Social Insurance Numbers, physical constants, product codes at the grocery store, etc. It's very handy.

Anyway, I had to identify myself with my SIN today on the phone for loan purposes. But there was no record of my SIN number in their database. I repeated it - still wrong. Got through finally by telling the chap on the phone my date of birth.

Turns out the number I was telling him was the speed of light in m/s (299 792 458 - "nippy back pain relief"). It's not my fault they have the same number of digits!