itinumerology

        Allan Krill, Professor of Geology

As a geology student in 1979 I began using the 'Major System' to memorize numbers, including radiometric age-determinations of Norwegian rocks.

In 1997, as a teacher, I made a list of common English words and their number-equivalents according to that system. I self-published the list (60,000 entries) as a book called Krill's Numberword Thesaurus.

I noticed that the word 'numerology' just happens to be 23456 so I coined the word pseudonumerology and published a new book. You can download it here for free: Pseudonumerology: A word game... (1998)

I began researching the 350-year history of that memory system and published a new version of the book that included the history. You can read it online here: Sound Numbers: Place-value sounds, symbols, and words (2005)

The mathematician Mike Naylor and I expanded the book, and published a new version. Download it here: Numberwords: The history and future of audionumerals (2011)

I disliked calling it 'pseudo...' so for a while I called it audionumerology (=123456) and I now call it itinumerology (=123456). The numberwords are 'itinumbers', or 'itinums'.

Below is my webpage from 2001 presenting the word game Pseudonumerology and a little of its history.

Allan Krill
allankrill@gmail.com



the game of making words to match numbers

Pseudonumerology® is developed from the world's best number-memory technique.
It is a fascinating word game.        Learn to play it -
and you may find yourself memorizing numbers you never felt were worth knowing!

Play with words and remember numbers
in completely new ways!



Use 10 minutes learning to "pseudospell" words as numbers

How do you use Pseudonumerology to remember lots of numbers?

FAQ
Why should I bother to memorize the numbers I use?   -You feel you "own" the numbers, you're not just "borrowing" them.
But why should I use this weird method?   -Because it works, and because it's fun!

Ten pseudonumerals - new symbols for the numbers

Pseudonumerals    
 T 
 N 
 M 
 R 
 L 
 J 
 K 
 F 
 P 
 S 
Arabic numerals    
 1 
 2 
 3 
 4 
 5 
 6 
 7 
 8 
 9 
 0 
Roman numerals    
 I 
 II 
 III 
 IV 
 V 
 VI 
 VII 
 VIII 
 IX 

Click on a number to see the pseudonumes (words) that match it (from the Peewee Web Pseudonumer.®)
Keep this separate window open while visiting this web site.

 0     1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9    
00   01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19  
20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39  
40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54   55   56   57   58   59  
60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79  
80   81   82   83   84   85   86   87   88   89   90   91   92   93   94   95   96   97   98   99  

Go to Chemical examples            Go to Presidents examples     Go to Pseudonumerals game          Go to PseudX game
1 Hydrogen 1.0079             1789 - 1797               325 / 541                 94175
Memorizing Numbers  (real examples, mnemonics) Word Games & Puzzles (using the number alphabet)
  Pin codes never written, or forgotten   PseudX™ try to solve these crossword puzzles 
  Telephone numbers  40 typical numbers easily remembered   Pseudonumerology®  making words for numbers 
  Names and dates of US Presidents boring (silly!) history   Pseudonumerals™crossword game, for SCRABBLE-fans
  Pi (p) to 500 places  a meteorite strikes Albania = 3.141592   Numberwords™ guess the word, given only the numbers
  Chemical elements: atomic numbers & weights   PseudoSums  add up to new challenges
  Telephone extension numbers            ISBN            
  Geological Time Scale   Cambridge University history         

Professor Krill's quack quiz question:
"How do you pseudospell words as numbers?" 
         (Answer:  "410  0  23940")     (More quiz questions)

Pseudonumers®   (Lists for you to match words to numbers)
The Peewee Web Pseudonumer   make a word phrase (pseudonume) for your number
The Pocket Pseudonumer   the fastest tool for memorizing a series of numbers 
Norsk Pseudonumer  a Norwegian version of the Pocket Pseudonumer
Pseudonumerology,  including the Ponderous Pseudonumer   (buy this unique book)
Krill's Numberword Thesaurus  (1997, original book with 65,000 numberwords, no longer available)

About the 350-year old number alphabet and the "feinaiglers" who developed it
"For her, Feinaigle's were an useless art"

New names for long-digit numbers
127  =  "one hundred and twenty seven"  =  iTNK  =  "yitiniky"

Glossary of Special Terms

Links to good memory web sites


Word games and memory exercises
With machines to do more of our physical and mental work,
we can do fun and effective exercises to keep ourselves in shape.

Pseudonumerology.com      ©2001 Allan Krill      PseudonumerologicVIPs