# Do you remember (useless) numbers? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 13, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870 "2002-05-13T19:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870/21 "2002-05-14T02:59:57Z")
1 800 876 5353 15 points to the person who gets that one… ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870/22 "2002-05-14T06:13:18Z")
Both mine and ex-wife’s SSN (divorced 5 years) childhood telephone number (even remember the lettered exchange – WHitney) pi to 20 places (what can I say, I’m a nerd) combination locks that I haven’t used for 20 years friend’s home phone numbers from childhood used to know bank numbers and others I find that the easiest way to forget numbers is to put them into my wristwatch (Timex Datalink) and then I usually forget them altogether. ---
**Author:** ![Canby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Canby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canby)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870/23 "2002-05-14T06:44:13Z")
I can remember the first phone number I ever learned - the one we had when I was four years old. On the other hand, it took me at least a year to learn my current work number. ---
**Author:** ![Largo62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@Largo62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Largo62)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870/24 "2002-05-14T07:52:29Z")
I still remember the first phone number I ever learned (more than fifty years ago), but I don’t remember the last phone number I had before my current one (only four years ago). Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870/25 "2002-05-14T08:21:48Z")
Oh, **Uncle Beer,** that was just evil. _jenny I’ve got your number…_ ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870/26 "2002-05-14T12:51:07Z")
I remember the license plate numbers to the last four vehicles my parents have owned. I remember the license plate number to the car I traded off about a year ago. I remember the phone numbers of friends I had in grade school and the old phone numbers of friends who have since moved. I remember the phone number to the place I last lived in before I moved from there five years ago. I know pi to 3.14159265 (I know a lot of people can beat me on this). I know the square roots for several numbers (square root of 2=1.41421356, 3=1.7320508, etc.) I can recite the powers of 2 up to the 24th power (2^24 = 16,777,216). July 1, 1987 was the day I bought my first VCR. February 8, 1986 was the day I bought my first “real” stereo system. September 29, 1994 was the day I bought my first car, and April 20, 2001 was when I bought my second car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-useless-numbers/108870.md?page=1)