Re: which numbers are easy to remember?

From: Tim Mellor (timm_at_amsta.leeds.ac.uk)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: 29 Oct 2004 03:03:34 -0700

"Philip Holman" <namlohip@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<W8ydnRyYnJZEAxzcRVn-jQ@comcast.com>...
> "Tim923" <juggler923@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:iqh2o0hhvttr2jf78v0khjph133i07kind@4ax.com...
> > >If nothing is known about this yet, one would have to accumulate a
> > >lot
> >>of experimental data, and then try to form a theory to explain the
> >>data.
> >
> > Round: 720-0000
> > Sequential: 123-4567
> > Repeating strings: 545-4545, 609-6090
> > Palindromes: 854-1458
> > High use of one digit: 723-3333, 878-8888
> > PI: 314-1592 or other constants
> >
> > And of course, numbers included in songs, 867-5309.
>
> Dates 911-2001
> 317-1737
> 018-1815
>
> PH

British TV programe "Fasmily Fortunes". The contestents have to guess
the popular answers to a poll of questions like "name something you
use in the bath".

One famous question:

Q: name a number that is easy to remember

A: twenty seven

(I think it was twenty seven. Similar such nonsence from the program
is archived here,
http://www.businessballs.com/familyfortunesanswers.htm
though they missed that one out!)