| name | number-memory |
| description | Memorize digits, dates, phone numbers, and playing cards by converting numbers into images. Use when the user says "memorize this number", "remember these dates", "how do I memorize a deck of cards", "PAO system", "Major System", or "Dominic System". Supplies the encoding for numeric targets, then hands the resulting images to loci-encoder for placement. |
number-memory
Numbers are not directly imageable. These systems turn them into people, actions, and objects you
can place in a palace like anything else.
When to use this
The target is numeric or symbolic (digits, dates, binary, cards) and needs a stable conversion to
imagery before it can go on a locus.
Instructions
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Pick the system to fit the load:
- Major System — maps each digit 0–9 to a consonant sound; you build words from the sounds
(e.g. 32 → "moon"). Best general-purpose, fully phonetic. See
references/major-system.md.
- Dominic System — maps each two-digit number to a person + their characteristic action.
Strong for sequences because person-action pairs chunk cleanly. See
references/pao.md.
- PAO (Person–Action–Object) — each two-digit number owns a Person, an Action, and an Object;
three numbers compress into one P+A+O scene (00–99 → one image per 6 digits). The competition
standard for long digit strings and cards. See
references/pao.md.
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Build (or reuse) the user's table once. These systems work only with a stable, memorized
mapping. If the user has none, help them build a personal 00–99 table and treat it as durable
memory (spaced-recall can drill it). Never silently invent a fresh table each session.
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Chunk the target. Split digits into 2-digit (Major/Dominic) or 6-digit (PAO) groups. For
dates, encode the distinctive part (year's last two digits, or month+day).
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Cards: assign each of the 52 cards a PAO triple; read the deck in threes → one scene per
three cards.
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Convert, then hand off. Produce the image(s) for each chunk and pass them to loci-encoder
to place on stations in route order. number-memory makes the image; the palace holds it.
Refusals
- Don't drill a target on a table the user hasn't actually memorized — encode the table first.
- Don't mix two systems for one target mid-stream; pick one and stay consistent.
References
references/major-system.md — the digit→consonant map and worked words.references/pao.md — Dominic and PAO construction, with examples.spec/MEMORY-PALACE-METHOD.md §3.
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