Peter Oram · @PeterWyrm
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“How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the tough chapters involving quantum mechanics!”

Do you know what this mnemonic is used for?

#Mnemonic #mathematics #maths

Last updated 2 years ago

Vingt Trois Seize 💎 · @vingtroiseize
237 followers · 536 posts · Server mastodon.world
lachrymoose · @lachrymoose
90 followers · 138 posts · Server mastodon.world

An astronomical device for old hip-hop fans: To remember whether a waxing moon is shaped like a letter “C” or “D”, remember it was Mike D who often rapped the phrase “waxing and milking”


#lunar #astronomy #Mnemonic #science #90s #raplyrics #beastieboys #hiphop #Astrodon #rap

Last updated 3 years ago

Remember History · @RememberHistory
0 followers · 1 posts · Server mastodon.world

An introduction to Remember Dates

#history #Mnemonic #historynerds

Last updated 3 years ago

· @JenSurname
76 followers · 179 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

Also, every time I call it , I have a little smile to myself and feel a little bit bad. Because in the days when that name was most fitting, I was still at school and the bloke over the road (“Uncle Harry”) was a proofreader for in Manchester.

He’s long gone now, but I think of him every time I have to spell ‘necessary’, because he taught me a so I didn’t misspell it, and I say it in my head every time I write that word to this day, more than 40 years later.

#thegrauniad #theguardian #Mnemonic

Last updated 3 years ago

HoustonDog :unverified: · @HoustonDog
267 followers · 1251 posts · Server mastodon.world

first week of Calculus … humming "ho dee hi, hi dee ho, over ho ho." ~Isaac Newton (HI/HO)

#quotientrule #Mnemonic

Last updated 3 years ago

Shane O'Mara · @shaneomara
210 followers · 83 posts · Server mstdn.science