There is not that much to make up. For me numbers (digit sequences) are somewhat like words. And building a story from words is mostly easy—compare to this xkcd. Compare this:
286 718 3385 246 354 65 625
cpu my-friend symmetric-hill stairs broken-stairs earning 5-squares.
The latter is not exactly how I read the digits but close enough to get an impression I hope. Constructing a story for the latter is easier than for the ‘meaningless’ digits themselves.
Finally I mastered the skill) The trick was to put effort and make you sys2 to come up with a stories and then decode them into numbers again. I don’t have deep mathematical and programming understanding like most of people here, so I had to use word almost time after time, for example “727” is almost Boeing 737
There is not that much to make up. For me numbers (digit sequences) are somewhat like words. And building a story from words is mostly easy—compare to this xkcd. Compare this:
286 718 3385 246 354 65 625
cpu my-friend symmetric-hill stairs broken-stairs earning 5-squares.
The latter is not exactly how I read the digits but close enough to get an impression I hope. Constructing a story for the latter is easier than for the ‘meaningless’ digits themselves.
I guess it must be the same or rather much deeper for many mathematicians, esp. the number-theory ones. It was said about Ramanujan that every positive integer was one his personal friends.
Finally I mastered the skill) The trick was to put effort and make you sys2 to come up with a stories and then decode them into numbers again. I don’t have deep mathematical and programming understanding like most of people here, so I had to use word almost time after time, for example “727” is almost Boeing 737