COMPUTER APPLICATION FOR MASTERING THE NUMERICAL ALPHABET

Abstract

As one of the various memorization systems, the so-called numerical alphabet has been established. It enables transforming numbers into words. In that way memorizing numbers is highly alleviated, since words are to be memorized instead of numbers, which is substantially easier. The essence of the numerical alphabet is to assign 2 or more consonants to each of the 10 digits. That way each 2-digit or 3-digit number may be transformed into a single word by combining the proper consonants with vowels. This means that, by using the numerical alphabet, memorizing a 20-digit number may be reduced to memorizing a series of 7 to 10 words. In this paper we describe a computer application we have developed, that helps the users to adopt the numerical alphabet, so they can easily memorize numbers.