JRS: In article ,
dated Tue, 28 Dec 2004 07:50:50, seen in news:uk.transport.london,
Roland Perry posted :
In message , at
15:20:49 on Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Martin Underwood
remarked:
I tend to break numbers into triplets, but if I knew the number before BT
added extra digits I break it at that point without even thinking about it:
my parents' number used to be 3698 and then was lengthened to 613698:
subconsciously I break this into 61 and 3698 rather than 613 698 ;-)

The breakpoint can affect the memorability very significantly. I have a
number that ends either 604 080, or 60 40 80, depending on where you
break it!

A number of new importance to me is best recalled as 0 aaaaa bbbbb,
since 0 is standard, aaaaa is unchanged being "village", and now
bbbbb=aaaaa. I'm not likely to ever want to use the local abbbbb form.
I don't mean that aaaaa is a multiple of 11111; it's "typical".

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