Re: [math-fun] another blot on Stanford

Everyone who makes it through college has a good memory; each such person has a vocabulary of at least 50,000 words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_lexicon The biggest problem is presenting facts in such a way that they are easier to remember. All mammals seem to be quite good at navigating in complex physical environments; they utilize the hardware of the visual cortex to organize information. The "Memory Palace"/"Method of Loci" technique appears to be quite useful in taking advantage of this hardware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci At 08:12 AM 2/13/2015, Charles Greathouse wrote:

Not everyone is gifted with a good memory.