It’s been a while since I wanted to talk about this. I’ve checked the forum and did not exactly come across something like this.
I’m not sure if this had been thought of before. if so, then this may just be an addition to it. If not , then here I’ll explain below how I discovered it.
I am not using this method, however, I thought I would share my thoughts and perhaps it may be useful for some people. Perhaps we can all contribute with more ideas and see where it would take us.
in its simplicity, “Reverse-LR-Mirror-Method” is reversing the digits and therefore reversing its image, and using the Mirror reflection for the Twin-Double-Digits. So that we have less digits & images but can still cover all the digits from 00-99 when memorising.
“Reverse” is for “Switching The Order Of The Digits”.
“LR” is for “Left” Or “Right”.
“Mirror” refers to the same reflection of the object in the mirror.
If we are using a 2 digit system, then we’d need 100 images to cover the digits from 00-99.
With this method, we would need 45 images and 10 images for the double digits. A total of 55 images.
What I have noticed is that if we reverse the digits, we can then reverse the image either facing to the right, or facing to the left.
So let’s say the digits were 19, then the reverse of it would be 91.
The method is to use the Image for 19 facing to the Right, and also use the same image for 91 facing to the Left.
19 for me is an Elephant in number shapes.
Notice that the image is facing to The Right.
Now if we reverse the Elephant to the Left, this would then give us 91.
We have used a single image to cover 19 & 91 by reversing the image either to the left, or to the right.
So by reversing the digits, and therefore reversing the images, we would only need 45 images in total as follows. Here is how it ended that somewhat looks like a Pyramid of 45 images.
02 12
03 13 23
04 14 24 34
05 15 25 35 45
06 16 26 36 46 56
07 17 27 37 47 57 67
08 18 28 38 48 58 68 78
09 19 29 39 49 59 69 79 89
Notice that it starts with 01. This image would also cover 10.
So we don’t need to memorise two different images.
02 is also used for 20. So again it is a single image.
and so on for the rest of the images.
Let’s now notice some more interesting facts here.
Each two digit also suggests how many images there are in total in each line of the pyramid.
01 suggests that there is a single image because it ends with 1.
The next line which starts with 02 shows us that there are two images because the digits ends with a 2.
Let’s look at the next line which starts with 03, well there are only three 2digit numbers that all ends with a 3.
If a two digit number ends with a 7, well there are a total of 7 images that always ends with a digit 7.
This may be some help for recalling the digits, as we would know how many images we need to go through in our minds to recall the digits rather than all 100 digits.
Notice also the Double Digits are Missing.
00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99
This would mean that we would need to have 10 more images for Double Digits as they cannot be reversed. I’ve just added them to the bottom of the pyramid.
02 12
03 13 23
04 14 24 34
05 15 25 35 45
06 16 26 36 46 56
07 17 27 37 47 57 67
08 18 28 38 48 58 68 78
09 19 29 39 49 59 69 79 89
00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99
Here is another variation which would add an extra image to each line on the Pyramid by using the Double Digits.
00
01 11
02 12 22
03 13 23 33
04 14 24 34 44
05 15 25 35 45 55
06 16 26 36 46 56 66
07 17 27 37 47 57 67 77
08 18 28 38 48 58 68 78 88
09 19 29 39 49 59 69 79 89 99
Again there are a total of 55 images.
One last thing I want to cover is The Mirror.
Sometimes we may get a Twin-Double-Digits such as 19 19.
You would then do your usual action, linking the 2 images together.
However, this is where the Mirror comes in handy!
Because the first and second double digits are the same, we can simply place An Image Of A Mirror in front of the first image. This also saves some confusion with reverse digits, and would be much faster to imagine it and to create the link.
here is an example;
When using a real mirror, it would actually show you the reverse of the reflection of what’s in front of it. However, because the reverse is already used with all 45 images, we simply just have to know that it’s used for Twin-Double-Digits.
By using only 55 images in total, we can cover all the digits from 00-99 simply by seeing the reversed image facing to the left or to the right. This would also mean that we would only have 55 actions in total.
This method can be used with any Number-To-Image Generator System such as the Dominic system, Major system, the Shaper system or any other independent system.
I personally don’t use this method, but wanted to share my thoughts so others may find this useful or brainstorm some ideas to make a good use for it.
What are your thoughts?
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