Introduction

Before there were PDAs, people used to have to remember things. Sometimes these things were numbers, like phone numbers or social security numbers or other people's credit card numbers. Sometimes you would meet someone that could remember a lot of these numbers. That person, if not eidetic in some way, quite possibly used a mnemonic not unlike the one that Mnemisis is meant to teach.

Mnemisis uses a mnemonic system dating back at least three hundred years to Stanislaus Mink von Wennsshein's idea of using phonemes to translate numbers into words. These words, it's hoped, will be easier to remember than 20-odd digits. By taking a dictionary that you supply, Mnemisis will construct a lookup table that you can then use for your own mnemonics.

Some background can be found here.

It's not as drab as it sounds... Imagine being able to punch some numbers into your computer and getting a text string you can then carry with you to decode on the fly when you need it. Mnemisis takes the difficult part of this mnemonic system and chops it down to size. All you have to do is translate a stream of words into their phonemes, and from there into their numeric equivalent.

And what better way to spend all available free time than dorking with numbers, memorizing things... Three little sayings, "Hum dirtily, banjo lamely, fib wacky. Opium, enemy of oration. A showroom movie maniac, happy always." give you, with a bit of decoding, Pi to 31 digits. Won't that be a nice little pebble to keep in your pocket? Won't it? It will.

Enter the dragon! Please wipe your feet.

	Important
	If you do not have a word list dictionary on your system (which is required to get Mnemisis to work), you'll find a walkthrough for getting one for use with Mnemisis here. If you don't have grep on your system, but have a grep workalike, see here for information on making Mnemisis aware of the situation.