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input 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 sing-song baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-baba-ba

this is not memorable.. It could use another pass to handle repeatings words like K8s, or .. some set rhythm patters that help you chunk and remember the overall count .. Baba-BAba-baba, Baba-BAba-baba or something ..

They didn't mention Mnemonic major system in the prior, art.

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How do you usually remember uuids or hashes if you have to?

Many people basically just read the start and the end and compare that, given the huge collision space.

I find 51ac0759fc4d far less memorable than kalo-tadu-komu-tigi. Also if I had to tell one of those over the telephone to my parents and my life depended on it I would choose the latter.

> Also if I had to tell one of those over the telephone to my parents and my life depended on it I would choose the latter.

Why not adopt the crypto (as in coins) seed thing with random words? Those are much more human readable, imo than "bubu bibi baba".

Because my parents do not speak English and these solutions have no localizaction usually. Bubu baba may be sound stupid, but I am confident a German parent or an Italian friend would understand it better than an assortment of complicated English words they don't know the meaning of and where the writing is unclear.

Additionally there is an effective mnemonic technique thst turns text into a melody that is sung (hence the name probably). This works better with "baba bubo kali meta" than with "atrocious limestone".

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