Have you memorized, and mastered, the alphabetical numbers equivalent?
For example:
A = 1,
B = 2
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Without Googling or singing the alphabet song, do you know one of the middle letters number equivalent?
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Yes, a long time ago. I don’t remember them all, but the first and last few are easy, especially if you have fingers. I always remember h = 8, from the sound clue, and m = 13, or halfway. My maiden name begins with m. I sat halfway back in a lot of classrooms.
@Jeruba I know that Q was 19 because of Star Trek TNG.
Not really.
I have a loose awareness of the numbers, I guess.
I don’t recall ever memorizing it.
Yes I have them memorized in both directions. If you give me either the letter or the position I can tell the other. For example, I immediately knew that Q ia 17 and 19 is S
Our English alphabet is too easy.
Try the Hebrew alphabet and its numerical values.
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I did the opposite once and assigned a letter to each of the first ten numbers. The idea was that any number could be converted to words or images that were more meaningful and easier to remember than numbers, especially big ones.
Childs play.
Now let’s count to FFF in hex.
Update edit Worf was wrong. Q is 20 not 19. From the last two episodes of Star Trek TNG.
Also I’m not sure that my math is correct?
Q is 17. Starting from M, which 1s 13:
M… N…O…P…Q
13..14..15..16…17
OK kids, lets all count to 100 in Binary
000
001
010
011
100
For what it is worth, all vowels, including y, are in oddd numbered positions. The chances of that happening at random is about 0.7%
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