Another PAO question

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i’m struggling to get a PAO list together, it is harder and more work than I imagined.

I have a question about PAO:
In the PAO lists I see PAOs are made for 01 to 99.
How do you distinguish between 3 and 03? At the end of a string of numbers with an odd length (like 13 digits) this problem would occur. In the examples on how to use PAO if only seen number strings with an even length.
Or do you use a number/shape or something like that dor single digits?
Another possibility would be to use different PAOs for 03 and 3 but i don’t see it anywhere in example lists.

It would be nice to know how you do this.

Hans

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I have images for 0-9 (number shapes), 00-99 (single images), and I’m working on finishing 000-999 (Ben System).

In daily life I mix them up. Example US phone number:
(415) 555-1212

415 = reel of film
555 = Lyle Lovett
12 = tuna fish
12 = when a number repeats, I just add a mirror to the image, so there would be one tuna fish doing something with a mirror.

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Thanks fr your answer.
I’m having a hard time finding 100 POAs i can’t imagine how hard it is to find 1000!
You must be using 1100 then to distinguish 00 from 000.
Making the list seems hard and getting quick on recalling them even harder!
I have a lot of respect for people who can pull that off and still make time to help other people!
Hans

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Have you seen this page? It has some ideas:

Here are two complete PAO systems:

http://jwleaf.org/html/pao-mnemonic-system.html
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If you are having trouble with certain numbers post them here, and maybe everyone could help find images.

The Ben System has 2704 images:

I added 100 images to that for 2-digit numbers, but haven’t finished the 2,704. I’m getting closer though. My deadline is the end of the month.

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I have seen the examples but a lot of them have no meaning for me, I try to come up with characters I’m familiar with.

I have a little over 100 POAs (a few only P) now and try to distribute them in a logical way over the numbers.
Some actions are not unique and need some work but gradually i’m getting there.

I hope to finish the list this week and memorize it this month.