RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: The Magic Apple

Using a mnemonic as a memory aid merely replaces the problem of remembering the
original information with that of remembering the mnemonic.
If the mnemonic is just as easy to remember wrong as the original formula you
are no further ahead.
Some years ago, one of the weekend comic strips had the family (I think it was
Hi and Lois) coming up with half a dozen "mnemonics" to remember which way to
change the clocks from standard to daylight time--all of them sounding perfectly
reasonable and all of them wrong! "Spring forward, fall back" is a familiar and
correct one.
The little ditty for remembering the lengths of the months ("30 days hath
october..." or whatever) is not very useful either, since you can move months
around in it to give wrong answers without interfering with the scan and rhyme.
I use the knuckle mnemonic for this, you count the months across your knuckles
at the base of your fingers and the hollows between them, when you get to the
last knuckle (July) you just start over with August on the index-finger knuckle.
A knuckle is a long month (31 days), a gap is a short month (28, 29, or 30).

Back to the original point (which it itself quite OT by now), would it not be
easier to just remember that when the voltage rises or the resistance drops, the
current increases?
-Kevin Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: JanRwl@... [mailto:JanRwl@...]
Sent: November 21, 2002 2:25 PM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: The Magic Apple


In a message dated 11/21/2002 1:10:03 PM Central Standard Time,
jj5412@... writes:

> England over the Irish Republic
>

Another almost-easy way to remember is there is ONE letter on top, TWO on
bottom, and these are in ALPHABETICAL order, L-to-R, and Top-to-bottom.