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It Pays to Remember Long Digit Numbers

The memory is a treasurer to whom we must give funds, if we
are to draw the assistance we need.
—Rowe

once, during my performance at the Concord Hotel in
upstate New York, a "friend" in the audience asked me to
memorize the number, 414,233,442,475,059,125. I did, of
course, using my systems. The reason I mention this now,
is because I had forgotten the little stunt I used as a child.
I would boast to my friends of what a marvelous memory I
had, and ask one of the boys (a stooge, of course) to call
out a long digit number. He would then proceed to call out
the subway stops of the New York Sixth Avenue Subway.
We all knew these stops, and it would have been quite ob-
vious if he had said, "4," then "14" and then "23," and so
on. However, hearing the numbers in groups of three made
them unrecognizable to the uninitiated.
In those days the Sixth Ave. express stopped at West 4th
Street, then 14th Street, 23rd Street, 34th Street, 42nd
Street, 47th and 50th Streets, 59th Street, 125th Street, etc.
I would simply call off these stops and leave my pals ex-
claiming over my prodigious memory. This all proves that
numbers can be remembered if they are made to represent
or mean something to us. I have helped you to do just that
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