Random numbers/letters you remember

Junkyard Tom · 13-08-2015 01:09AM

blackcard wrote: »

399XCXXX My PRSI number
10###### My Current Account No.
Xeeeee11 My phone password
3.1415926535895 pi
About 8 different phone numbers
Xxxxxxx My computer password
About 10 passwords to various different applications/packages on my computer
Xxxxxxx Password for Sky Box Office
Xxxx Password to enable radio in my car
Yyyyyy my 24 hour banking password
Do you have many numbers/passwords that you carry around in your head?

None of these are random - they're purposefully chosen.

knird evol · 13-08-2015 01:15AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

None of these are random - they're purposefully chosen.

doesn't this random scattering of numbers seem desperately random - like the elaborations of a bad liar?

SpaceTime · 13-08-2015 01:42AM

Is this a thinly veiled phishing thread?

13-08-2015 01:45AM

Deleted User wrote: »

What in the fcuk is this thread.

Its thread 2057476319, to be exact.

13-08-2015 01:47AM

I remember the new emergency services number

0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3

endacl · 13-08-2015 01:58AM

Deleted User wrote: »

What in the fcuk is this thread.

And why does nobody seem to understand what the word 'random' means anymore?

OP. The adjective you're struggling for is 'arbitrary'. Tell all the other teenagers. It's getting annoying.

Ruu · 13-08-2015 02:05AM

8675309, Jenny, Jenny.

TheLastMohican · 13-08-2015 02:23AM

Alexandra Cool Syringe wrote: »

I remember about 15 passwords, 3 sets of alarm codes, 6 pins, innumerable landline phone numbers , PRSI number, 3 bank accounts and sorting codes, and many form numbers. As for letter, I remember the letter of many random words.

OCD or not?

BTW, am only asking - nothing personal.

corner of hells · 13-08-2015 02:42AM

I can remember my army number from years ago ,,which is strange cause I wasn't in the army.

TheLastMohican · 13-08-2015 02:47AM

Hey COH's, who's your dealer?

Capt'n Midnight · 13-08-2015 08:39AM

6663629

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-08-2015 12:05PM

TheLastMohican wrote: »

OCD or not?

BTW, am only asking - nothing personal.

No, no. Just have a good memory for numbers.

My friend with OCD prefers to say CDO because it's in alphabetical order.

Badly Drunk Boy · 13-08-2015 12:42PM

As others have said, these are specific numbers that you need for various reasons.

However, if we're playing this game, 15215 was my Inter Cert number which I did in 1988 when I was 15, I remember a good few birthday's of people from my class in Primary school (and haven't spoken to since) and a few years ago, I helped a lad in work book a Ryanair flight on my computer, and freaked him out a few months later when I could tell him what his credit card number was.

A few months ago, in the canteen at breakfast, a female co-worker (for no particular reason) asked me to remember the order her siblings were born. There are 15 of them, and I don't know any of them. At lunch, she asked to to name them off, and then backwards, and then 6/15, 14/15, and 11/15. I got them all right but she thought she had caught me out with 11/16.

"That's my sister Mary!"
"No, you are 11/15."
After a few seconds, she says "You're right!"

The thing is...I never exactly claimed to be Jimmy Magee so I don't even know why she asked me.

blackcard · 13-08-2015 12:58PM

endacl wrote: »

And why does nobody seem to understand what the word 'random' means anymore?

OP. The adjective you're struggling for is 'arbitrary'. Tell all the other teenagers. It's getting annoying.

Maybe I should have said 'apparently random numbers' as they are not part of a sequence.

blackcard · 13-08-2015 01:11PM

endacl wrote: »

And why does nobody seem to understand what the word 'random' means anymore?

OP. The adjective you're struggling for is 'arbitrary'. Tell all the other teenagers. It's getting annoying.

Two of the Synonyms of 'arbitrary' are 'random' and 'unpredictable'

Sunnyisland · 13-08-2015 01:13PM

214 my clocking in card number when I started as a apprentice back in 1977.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-08-2015 01:15PM

I meet up with an old friend who worked in the payroll office of a large company before retiring over 12 years ago. He still can rattle off the staff numbers of any of the workers we meet or mention.

conorh91 · 13-08-2015 01:21PM

I remember my Dad's 088 phone number from around 1999, I was seven or eight. I was forced to memorize it in case of emergency.

It would have to have been a pretty big emergency. You'd need to have been given the last rites before school would let you call a mobile in those days.

Other than that I remember several passwords, several phone numbers, and my Eircode!

13-08-2015 01:50PM

Alexandra Cool Syringe wrote: »

I meet up with an old friend who worked in the payroll office of a large company before retiring over 12 years ago. He still can rattle off the staff numbers of any of the workers we meet or mention.

I believe your long-term memory sharpens with age, in direct contrast to your short-term memory. Your friend can probably reel off those numbers with ease, while at the same time not having the faintest recollection of where he left his glasses an hour ago.

Mad_Dave · 13-08-2015 01:55PM

After years of doodling on my calculator I have memorised the answers to 999 cubed, 888 cubed, 777 cubed and 666 cubed. I also know 987x789x987 and 789x987x789.
Oddly that's never come in handy.

I also remember my ICQ number even though I haven't used it in years

13-08-2015 02:00PM

Wife's birthday, wedding anniversary...the rest are not matters of life and death...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-08-2015 03:27PM

Candie wrote: »

I believe your long-term memory sharpens with age, in direct contrast to your short-term memory. Your friend can probably reel off those numbers with ease, while at the same time not having the faintest recollection of where he left his glasses an hour ago.

Ah no. Not this guy, nor myself. Don't generalise and put all us old geezers in the one basket.

ablelocks · 13-08-2015 04:20PM

230049-100

it's the part number for a Floppy Drive that was used in AST PC's in the late 90's

whiskeyman · 13-08-2015 04:28PM

081 811 8181!!!

(for you kids who liked Saturday morning TV in the 90s)

omnithanos · 13-08-2015 05:51PM

my home telephone number and car reg from the 80's.

4291 - Victor Meldrews phone number.

911 (Jesus Christ's birthday)
666 (The location of the finish line at the Boston Marathon and the winning lottery numbers in Chicago on the day of Obama's inauguration)
237 (Door number in the Shining movie or the number of thousand of miles from earth to the moon)
88 (As in HH or Heil Hitler)
33 (The highest degree in Free Masonry)
13 (The number of Satanic families in the Illuminati)
11 (The Apollo moon landing)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-08-2015 05:55PM

omnithanos wrote: »

my home telephone number and car reg from the 80's.

4291 - Victor Meldrews phone number.

911 (Jesus Christ's birthday)
666 (The location of the finish line at the Boston Marathon and the winning lottery numbers in Chicago on the day of Obama's inauguration)
237 (Door number in the Shining movie or the number of thousand of miles from earth to the moon)
88 (As in HH or Heil Hitler)
33 (The highest degree in Free Masonry)
13 (The number of Satanic families in the Illuminati)
11 (The Apollo moon landing)

You forgot 18 Bells of the Angelus.

13-08-2015 06:13PM

I remember every number sequence that's necessary to remember - PRSI, Bank accounts, etc. I always associate a four-digit code with the year of a historical event. That never fails. (except when, in 1998, I set the code for my new bike as 1798 and my little nephew guessed the combination and robbed it!)

knird evol · 13-08-2015 06:26PM

Mad_Dave wrote: »

After years of doodling on my calculator I have memorised the answers to 999 cubed, 888 cubed, 777 cubed and 666 cubed. I also know 987x789x987 and 789x987x789.
Oddly that's never come in handy.

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-08-2015 10:01AM

knird evol wrote: »

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

Why exclude 0 x 9 + 1 = 1 at the start of that well known sequence?

omnithanos · 14-08-2015 10:57AM

Alexandra Cool Syringe wrote: »

You forgot 18 Bells of the Angelus.

Oh Alexandra Cool Syringe most holy

Here's some coincidental numbers

1967 - The number of years between the Crucifixion of Jesus and the event on 9/11 which coincidentally occurred on the actual date of Jesus' birthday and which coincidentally occurred at the world trade centre which coincidentally had it's foundations dug in 1967. Coincidentally David Rockefeller, the man behind the project, appeared on the cover of Newsweek magazine that year on the 3rd of April which is coincidentally believed to have been the actual date of the Crucifixion of Jesus and Rockefeller himself coincidentally had his watch set to 9 11 on the cover photo. Rockefeller's company, AT&T, were chosen to pick the random number for the emergency services in the US the following year and they coincidentally chose 911.

666 - The number of days between the death of Stanley Kubrick and the start of the year 2001 which coincidentally was the title of his most famous movie and was also coincidentally the year that the 9/11 event occurred.

33 - As mentioned previously this number is the highest degree in free masonry. It was also Beyonce's age when Joan Rivers, who was coincidentally born in 1933, coincidentally died on Beyonce's birthday. Coincidentally Rivers was 81 when she died and Beyonce was born in 1981.

Random numbers/letters you remember

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