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Old 10-22-2006, 12:03 AM  
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Originally Posted by Dave Guru View Post
pretty interesting. I would love to read the #7 article youre talkin about ASM. You got me curious
The article most probably stems from the classic George Miller's 1956 study, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information

It basically has to do with the fact that (as he showed) the brain recodes from a base-two arithmetic to a base-four arithmetic. However, there have been plenty of urban legends grown from that study.

Have a look on Wikipedia
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