Chapter 4. Using Centum Amici System To Remember Numbers
Holding Numbers
Utilization of the `Centum Amici System`
The chapter assumes that you have constructed your personal table of `100 Friends`. As a practice, you can have it on your side for references, and gradually over time, it should become a `language for your memory`.
Here we try to see how it helps us to memorize numbers. When a long chain of numbers is given to us, the first step is — Divide et Impera.
Given a long chain of numbers, break them into chunks of 3’s , 4’s, 6’s and 8’s. Then translate the numbers into a story format.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte drew the relation between the 3 abstract terms of the triad (Synthesis, Antithesis, Thesis), also known as the dialectical method, to describe a story structure.
The beginning context is termed as (1) a thesis, (2) the challenge to the thesis forming the crisis of the story is called the antithesis, and lastly, (3) the relief and resolution of the antithesis is called the synthesis where a new proposition is formed. This is akin the fate structure of the Greek Goddesses, Moirai, or the 3 sisters of fate — Clotho (spinner), Lachesis (allotter) and Atropos (unturnable).