Systems of Coding Numbers to Letters

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I was wondering if there are any other systems of coding numbers to letters to arrive at a cast of characters or People in a PAO system that I may be missing? I know that many people on this forum use the tried and tested Major System to achieve this to arrive at their individual 100 People. Others opt for a First name only approach (Major), others opt to use a combination of First names and Surnames (Major), others still use an “Encoded system” for their PAO where the characters are individuals solely paired intuitively to the numbers themselves. Others still use a Dominic System for all combinations of names and surnames already alluded to. There is also a “Letter-Getter” system too. Still others have developed systems based on their preferential choices of how they personally want to encode numbers. Still others have learnt a categorical type system ‘off by heart’ for their chosen 00-99 characters, choices are virtually limitless. I list a few alternatives systems below to encode number “42” into a Person for PAO purposes:

#42 Unencoded (Intuitive) System = Hitch-Hiker/ clue #42 is the answer to everything (Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

#42 Major System (First Name Only) = RoNNie, RiNgo (only use the first two letters)

#42 Major System (First Name and Surname) = RN = Richard Nixon

#42 Dominic System (First Name Only) = DB = DeBBie

#42 Dominic System (First Name and Surname) = David Bowie

#42 *Letter-Getter System - Rhyming System (First Name and Surname) = DP = Dolly Parton

#42 Letter-Getter System - Rhyming (First name only) = DoPey

#42 Visual Encoding System = Amanda Nunes or Alfred Nobel

#42 Shaper System - Chess Knight (4 = Head and 2 = Pedestal that Head stands on!)

#42 Bingo Call words 42 = Winnie the Pooh

Those are the alternatives that I am familiar with but are the any other ‘codes’ I haven’t uncovered perhaps? I will update this page with any further ones I can think of.

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Anyone using Katapayadi System
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There’s also the katapayadi system…

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Good to hear from your Bjoern. At first I thought you were joking but then I ‘googled it’ just to make sure and I uncovered this.

Care to elaborate on it? Are you using such a system?

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Upon doing a search on the Art of Memory Website I uncovered this gem:

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Thanks for this Bjoern

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Technically speaking, I’m not using any system anymore because I have my 00 - 99 memorized, so I don’t need the translation logic anymore. If that doesn’t really make sense, consider little kids learning how to read and write and putting letters together to sound out words; whereas, as an adult you just read the whole word. About 90% of my system was based on the major system though when first created.

By the way, careful with that Latin alphabet table for katapayadi… “all vowels” is something that wouldn’t work when using Major because you need something between the consonants. The same is true for Devanagari and it’s only “true vowels” that get the value of 0, but not the vowel sounds that come with the consonants.

…it makes little sense to try and have a Latin alphabet chart for katapayadi if you ask me.

Also, neither Major nor Katapayadi map numbers to letters but rather numbers to sounds. “Motion” according to letters->numbers would be 312, but phonetically it’s actually 362… and that’s how it’s done in Major.

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