Useful rhymes, mnemonics etc.
 

My wife was having silver nitrate put on her toe recently and I was reminded of one of the few chemical formulas I know. Taught to the class about 1974 by our science teacher. Something like:

Little Jimmy died last week
Alas, he is no more.
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4

I must stop drinking from batteries.

Now I just need a mnemonic to help me spell mnemonic correctly first time.

1)PEDMAS/BEDMAS < - from memory
2)"Richard of York gave battle in vain" = roygbiv = "roy great britain the fourth" <- from wikipedia, but I knew roygbiv already.
3)ohel(hebrew, means tent) = " [B]oh hell[/B],there's a raccoon in my tent" <- from wikipedia
4)"There's a fork in Ma’s leg" = mazleg ( hebrew, for fork)<- from wikipedia
5) "to be a star" = estar(spanish, to be)<- from wikipedia

Llave, aqui! (spanish, translated "Key, here." Best done when holding a key.)

One of my favorite quotes from a math teacher of mine was, "Close only counts in hand grenades, horseshoes, and slow dancing."

[QUOTE=rogue;257803]One of my favorite quotes from a math teacher of mine was, "Close only counts in hand grenades, horseshoes, and slow dancing."[/QUOTE]

I never heard the slow dancing part. And generally it was horseshoes then hand grenades.

Odissea | it " lo disse (ea) lei" dialect Venexian
 

[QUOTE=Flatlander;257793]My wife was having silver nitrate put on her toe recently and I was reminded of one of the few chemical formulas I know. Taught to the class about 1974 by our science teacher. Something like:

Little Jimmy died last week
Alas, he is no more.
For what he thought was H2O
Was H2SO4

I must stop drinking from batteries.

Now I just need a mnemonic to help me spell mnemonic correctly first time.[/QUOTE]

"[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAsYjbDBeQg&feature=player_detailpage"]Calypso[/URL]" call_upsao travel ([URL="http://alberodimaggio.blogspot.com/2009/07/calypso-filosofico.html"]R.Mit+ch-um[/URL])



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Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly -- the salacious version of the mnemonic for the resistor color code -- Black=0, Brown=1, Red=2, Orange=3, Yellow=4, Green=5, Blue=6, Violet=7, Gray=8, White=9.

[url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=14245[/url]

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;257823][URL]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=14245[/URL][/QUOTE]Indeed.

This ( [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-12584669[/url] ) appeared since the last burst of activity on that thread. Perhaps this post ought to be in the WTF thread...

Paul

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;257823][url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=14245[/url][/QUOTE]

Oops. Forgot about that thread.

Surplus Post About Mnemonics

[QUOTE=Uncwilly;257823][url]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=14245[/url][/QUOTE]

Even I forgot about this one. HAHA