Harry Lorayne’s Memory Technique for Numbers:

Hi there! How about memorising a number, a long digit number. I think it’s difficult, is not it? In facts numbers are intangible
How about this:
Look at this number and this sentence for only a moment or two , say to yourself
014727132639092112
A STARK NAKED MAN JUMPS UP AND DOWN
Everyone agrees that the two most difficult-to-remember areas are names and faces, and numbers.The reason, of course, is that names and numbers are abstract concepts. Numbers are at the head of the class here because they are completely abstract, they are only designs on paper, and what do they actually mean in your mind? What does 7 mean to you except that it’s one less than 8 and one higher than 6? Now the following technique will help you.
The Phonetic Alphabet:
There are, of course, only ten digits in our number system: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0. What we need to learn is ten simple sounds, each one of which will represent one of our numerical digits. Fortunately, there are also only ten basic consonant sounds in our language. (Technically there are more, but there’s no need for us to get technical; we need only the ten basic consonant sounds, as we’ll see.)
We’re going to connect a digit to a sound, and vice versa, and those pairs will always remain the same—so once learned, forever beneficial, forever used.
It’s the sound that’s important, not the letter or letters used to form that sound, because different letters make the same sound
1- T, D
2- N
3- M
4- R
5- L
6- J, Sh, Ch
7- K, G
8- F, V
9- P, B
0- S, Z
The vowels a, e, i, o, u, by themselves, have no value at all, nor do the letters w, h, and y (the “old vowels”). The h, of course, changes the sound of other letters, as when it follows immediately after a g or a c. The vowels are the “glue” that connects the consonants, as you’ll see.Silent letters have no value because they make no sound! The word “knee,” for example, makes only the one n sound, because the k is not sounded. Of course, if someone speaks with an accent, and does pronounce or sound that k, then it would have value, the value of 7. “Bomb” makes only two consonant sounds, b then m; the final b is silent.
For our purposes, the th sound is the same as t; it represents the digit 1. Q usually makes the k sound so it represents the digit 7. X will rarely come up, but for the sake of completeness, it represents the sound it makes in the particular word. In “anxious,” it makes a k/sh sound, which is 7, 6. In “xylophone” it’s either g/z (7, 0) or just 0, depending on how you pronounce it.Double letters make one sound. The tt in “butter” makes one t sound (you don’t say “butiter”) so it represents 1, not 11.
Butter = 914.
The nn in “banner” makes one n sound. Banner = 924;
pillow = 95;
callous = 750.
So we will go to our sentence
A STARK NAKED MAN JUMPS UP AND DOWN
Only select the consonants, rejects vowels and W, H, Y
S = 0
T = 1
R = 4
K = 7
N=2
K= 7
D =1
M =3
N =2
J =6
M =3
P= 9
S =0
N =2
D =1
D = 1
N= 2
So our number is 014727132639092112
Another example,
MaRy haD a LiTtLe LaMB = 34151553;
a pretty girl is like a melody = 941745057351
Suppose you want to remember
147 275 952 127
147- Truck
275 -Nickel
952-Ballon
127-Tank
By linking you can remember a 12- digit number.
Look at this ordinarily formidable number:
9483 1582 9514 7412
Perfume Telephone Blotter Carton
614 757 954 (You can start your Link with paper or piper.)
4210 5214 6127 9071 (Rents can start your Link.)
522 641 639 527 (Linen is a good start.)
9427 9205 5210 7412(Bring, praying, boring, pouring, and brink are all good starts.)
To be continued…
