Editing Mnemonic peg system (section)

==Types of peg-word systems==
===Rhyming peg-word system===
The rhyming peg-word system is very simple, as stated above and could look something like this:
# Sun: Visualize an association between the first item and the sun.
# Shoe: Visualize an association between the second item and a shoe.
# Tree: Visualize an association between the third item and a tree.
# Door: Visualize an association between the fourth item and a door.
# Hive: Visualize an association between the fifth item and a bee hive.
# Chicks: Visualize an association between the sixth item and chicks.
# Heaven: Visualize an association between the seventh item and Heaven.
# Weight: Visualize an association between the eighth item and weights.
# Brine: Visualize an association between the ninth item and brine.
# Hen: Visualize an association between the tenth item and a hen.

For example, to remember the first 8 digits of Pi, using the major system as well:

# 3: Picture a '''m'''onkey walking on the Sun.
# 1: Picture a '''d'''og jumping over a shoe.
# 4: Picture a bottle of '''r'''um hanging from a tree.
# 1: Picture a '''t'''ube connecting to a door.
# 5: Picture bees flying from a cup of '''l'''emonade as if it is a hive.
# 9: Picture a '''b'''eetle climbing onto a chick nest.
# 2: Picture a '''n'''ewt with angel wings and a halo.
# 6: Picture a '''j'''aguar lifting weights.

The next step is to link the items with some sort of dramatic action, in order to record the order in which they appear.

The less likely you are to have seen the scene in real life, the more likely it is to make a reliably retrievable impression.

===Major system===
{{Further|Major system}}
While it is common to link rhyming nouns with numbers, that is by no means the only system.  There is also the major system, which connects sounds to numbers.<ref name="Moon">{{cite book|last1=Foer|first1=Joshua|title=Moonwalking with Einstein-The Art and Science of Remembering Everything|date=2011|publisher=the Penguin Group|location=New York, New York|isbn=978-1-59420-229-2|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780143120537}}</ref><ref name="USM">{{cite book|last1=Bremer|first1=Rod|title=The Manual - A guide to the Ultimate Study Method (USM)|publisher=Amazon Digital Services}}</ref> The major system is more complicated to learn than simple rhymes or alphabetic pegs, because it associates numbers 0-9 with a specific letter or sound, then larger numbers can combine to create words out of the sounds.<ref name="Moon" /> It is limitless in the number of pegs it can produce.  The most common association between numbers and letters is the following:<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cohen|first1=Josh|title=THE HISTORY AND EVOLUTION OF THE MAJOR SYSTEM FOR MEMORIZING NUMBERS|url=http://blog.artofmemory.com/history-of-the-major-system-1092.html|website=Art of Memory}}</ref>

*0 = s, x, z
*1 = t, d
*2 = n
*3 = m
*4 = r
*5 = l
*6 = sh, ch, j, soft g
*7 = c, k, hard g, q
*8 = f, v
*9 = p, b

This would make the number 33 "MM" which could be made into the word "mom" to better aid in memorization or 92 is "PN" and could become "pen."<ref name="Moon" /> "Cat" (or "cut") would correspond to 71, as vowels do not have any value.

===PAO system===
{{Further|Person-Action-Object}}
The person-action-object (PAO) system is the most complex.<ref name="Moon" /> It associates all numbers 00-99 with a distinctive person, action and object.  Any six-digit number can be memorized by using the person assigned the first two digits, the action of the next two digits and the object of the third.<ref name="Moon" /> For example:

*The number 34 could be [[Frank Sinatra]].
*13 could be the action of kicking.
*79 could be a cape.

This would make the number 341379, Frank Sinatra kicking a cape.<ref name="Moon" /> Memory grand master, [[Ed Cooke (author)|Ed Cooke]], reportedly has been working on the Millennium PAO system, which would create an association for all numbers 000-999.<ref name="Moon" />