Our brain is able to remember very complex matters, processes and stories. It is less good at dealing with abstract values such as mere number series.

The trick of the Major System therefore consists in giving these sterile values a face that our brain can remember more easily. The more perception areas of the brain are involved in storing this data, the easier it is for us to remember it.

If we associate a memory with smells, sounds or images, our brain will find it much easier to store and retrieve it than if we simply learn facts by heart.

In the Major System we achieve this by assigning the digits 0-9 to certain sounds.
The resulting series of sounds can be completed with any vowel to form meaningful words. These words can be very easily "translated back" into the original numbers.

The digits are assigned to the following sounds/letters:

	0: S, Z, TZ		5: L
	1: T, D		6: SH, CH, J
	2: N		7: K, G
	3: M		8: F, V, PH
	4: R		9: P, B

Double letters as in doll, matter, bubbles become single letters.
All other letters are ignored during the translation.

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Here is a examples of converting words to numbers:

Word	Converting	Value
This	T=1, S=0	10
is	S=0	0
just	J=6, S=0, T=1	601
a
simple	S=0, M=3, P=9, L=5	0395
example	M=3, P=9, L=5	395

This means that the entire sentence gives the number: 1006010395395

Another example:

Robert is looking for a combination for his new bicycle lock. He could use:
Robert = R=4, B=9, R=4, T=1, and can anytime remember the number 4941 easily.

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It is now interesting to go the other way around, that is, to translate numbers into words.

Many memory artists therefore create a basic stock of words that they use repeatedly as needed. If you can memorize the numbers 0-99 by heart, you are always on the safe side.

However, it is hardly possible to put together memory phrases or stories from the same words that do not repeat in parts. And at the latest when you put together your 20th memory phrase from the same words, you run the risk of mixing up parts of these stories.

For this reason, I have created a database to help find suitable words and create memorable memory phrases from them.

In the english database, more than 435,000 words are stored. These are distributed over more than 100,000 Major Codes.

(By the way, the longest english word in the database is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" with the 19-digit Major Code 9232514340905852200)

To generate memory phrases or stories from the chosen words, I use the Davinci language assistant from OpenAI.