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
You made up this stories in a minute? Wow, fast system 1
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