Mnemonic Device Game! (Roy G Biv et al)

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Albion Knight

I know this one its mathy I think

Very close. Math & Science, but what's it stand for?

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by Sephiroxas

King Henry Died Drinking Chocolate Milk

measurements? kilo, hecta, deca, - deci, centi, mili?

[Albion Knight]

Yea thats it. Figures someone whose country believes in the 21st century would get it

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Hexadecimal

measurements? kilo, hecta, deca, - deci, centi, mili?

Hooray! yep.

[Walker]

Somebody (Sephioraxes?) just did the God Made King Henry Die By Drinking Chocolate Milk one... but left out the "God", Made", and "By". How come?

What, just don't like Giga, Mega, and Base? Giga-Mega-Kilo-Hecta-Deka-Base-Deci-Centi-Milli... right? I could have sworn there was more, that included Micro-Pico-Nano... but I don't remember anything like that.

And "A Priest Saw Two Nuns Doing Pushups
or Please Do Not Throw sausage Pizza Away" sounds familiar... but I can't remember what it is...

Oh, and a note-- yeah, I'm an American (as evidenced by my location)-- but I and most of my classmates know the metric system (sort of) and that memory-thingy from various classes-- physics especially uses metric.

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Walker

Somebody (Sephioraxes?) just did the God Made King Henry Die By Drinking Chocolate Milk one... but left out the "God", Made", and "By". How come?
.

Um..What are you talking about?

King (Kilo) Henry (Hecto) Died (Deca) Drinking (Deci) Chocolate (Centi) Milk (Milli)

That's the only way I learned it. I didn't learn God Made or by..o_O

Acronym Definition
KHDUDCM Kilo Hecto Deca Unit Deci Centi Milli (units of measure)
KHDUDCM King Henry Doesn't Usually Drink Chocolate Milk (mnemonic for metric measure increments)

[Walker]

But what about Giga and Mega? (I admit that Base is dispensable. You don't really need much to remember that prefixless means, well, prefixless.)

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by Walker

But what about Giga and Mega? (I admit that Base is dispensable. You don't really need much to remember that prefixless means, well, prefixless.)

giga and mega probably weren't included in how she learned it because they don't follow the same pattern as all the others... the ones listed, going right to left will increase by 10x with each one... but mega is kilo x1000... and giga is mega x1000... so it wouldn't really work well in a mnemonic device because they don't fit well with the others and there's no indication in the mnemonic that they are any different than the others... so one may be led to believe that a mere 100 kilometres was a gigametre, for example... plus mega and giga are not used very often in every day measurements... people say tonne instead of mega...

[03scfr]

what the hell

[Albion Knight]

Here one a lot of people should know
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Albion Knight

Here one a lot of people should know
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally

God dammit. Why can't I ever remember what it stands for!? Oh oh! I remember

Parentheses Exponents Multiplication Division Addition Subtraction

[Hexadecimal]

Originally Posted by 03scfr

what the hell

...can't say I've ever heard that one before...

Originally Posted by Albion Knight

Here one a lot of people should know
Please excuse my dear aunt Sally

hehe we call that BEDMAS here... never heard it called PEMDAS

[Albion Knight]

Brackets vs Parenthesis

[§ephiroxa§]

Originally Posted by Hexadecimal

...can't say I've ever heard that one before...



hehe we call that BEDMAS here... never heard it called PEMDAS

Haha Bed..Ma's...

[Darg]

Oh good lord. This is getting fricking confusing! I'm not one for memory devices, but seriously! If you looked up confused in the dictionary right now, you'd see a picture of me with a stupid expression pasted on my face.