Why the human mind can spot errors on coins, a little off topic but interesting....

ScarsdaleCoin

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CaptainRon

spell checkers are over rated

poorguy

This is quite true.

It's also how you can condition your brain to remember very large numbers.

Most minds can only remember 7 digits. This makes phone numbers rather simple. But if you had to remember the number:

1607501899

You would be hard pressed to remember that one just one digit at a time but if you read it as

One Sixty Seven Fifty Eighteen Ninety-Nine

you are better able to remember it.

Cam40

taht is azmagin.
cool psot.

mgoodm3

I hung up on a few wdors, but otherwise it read pretty good (i switched the o's on the last word)

Longacre

That's cool.

MadMarty

I think that is the way Cameron posts all the time...

Heywood

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n2qmt

Remembering numbers is true too...I still remember my first Driver License number. It was one letter followed by 18 digits. I still know mine now but it is only 1 letter and 8 numbers. Cool post!

nwcs

<< <i>Most minds can only remember 7 digits. . >>

As I understand it, it's 6-9 separate pieces of information at one time. So a phone number could also be chunked into a first-second piece (prefix, postfix) which would just be 2 pieces. In fact, that's how we usually handle short term memory, by creating patterns and units. It's a fascinating study. I had an entire class in college just on cognition and it was great.

nwcs

Another thing also works. You can reverse each phoneme in a word and still understand it when spoken. Also the mind's ability to recognize faces is extraordinary, too.

carl

Glad you sent that message in like that. I'm going to start doing that to the people that waste my time telling me to use spell check before I send them a letter or message.