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You should be safe (Score:1)

by Limbic Region (3985)

Humans on average can remember no more than 7 or 8 things in a group. They do however have the ability to see smaller groups as single entities. For instance - international telephone numbers

011639204351234 (ficticious # in the Philippines)

011 - international
63 - country code
920 - equivalent of an area code
435 - just like US
1234 - just like US

This 15 digit number just became only 5.

Theoretically, this means that an average person should not have to exert a great deal of effort to learn a 49 to 64
- Re:You should be safe (Score:1)
  
  by cog (4665) <{cog} {at} {cpan.org}> on 2004.10.07 10:05 (#35032) Homepage Journal
  
  with that many digits I could already calculate the circumference of the universe with the precision of no more than a atom's width of error
  I dare you do it :-)
  
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