MAJOR Logs

3141592653 → 31 41 59 26 53 → meat, rat, lip, nacho, lamb. The story: under a giant π, a rat sits on a slab of meat licking its lip — while a woolly lamb nibbles a cheesy nacho. Chunk the ten digits into pairs and pull each peg: Pair Sounds Peg 31 m·t meat 41 r·t rat...

Quiz: MAJOR / Longer Numbers | updated: Jul 14, 2026

Chunk it into pairs, convert to pegs, and link them into a mini-scene tied to the person or account. A number like 079 412 8856 → 07 · 94 · 12 · 88 · 56 → sky, bear, tuna, fife, leech. Picture the scene anchored to whose number it is: in the sky, a bear kicks a tuna while playing...

Quiz: MAJOR / Longer Numbers | updated: Jul 14, 2026

0=s/z, 1=t/d, 2=n, 3=m, 4=r, 5=l, 6=ch/j/sh, 7=k/g, 8=f/v, 9=p/b. Digit Sound(s) Letters Memory hook 0 s, z s, z, soft c "Zero"; s/z hiss 1 t, d, th t, d, th one downstroke 2 n n two downstrokes 3 m m three downstrokes 4 r r "fouR" ends in r 5 l l L = Roman 50...

Quiz: MAJOR / How the Major System Works | updated: Jul 14, 2026

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 — each is double the one before. These seven fit inside the single/double-digit peg list, so each already has a picture: Power Value Peg 2⁰ 1 tie 2¹ 2 hen 2² 4 arrow 2³ 8 ivy 2⁴ 16 DJ 2⁵ 32 moon 2⁶ 64 jar Tip: "16-32-64" → DJ, moon, ja...

Quiz: MAJOR / Powers of 2 | updated: Jul 14, 2026

16777216 — about 16.7 million, the number of colours in 24-bit "True Color". The story: a DJ balances a cake; then a gun twirls beside a second DJ. 24-bit colour spends 8 bits each on red, green and blue, giving 2²⁴ = 16,777,216 possible colours — the "16.7 million colours" on...

Quiz: MAJOR / Powers of 2 | updated: Jul 14, 2026

72 — hard /g/ = 7, /n/ = 2. Decode the consonants g and n; the vowels are free.

Quiz: MAJOR / Double-Digit Pegs — Reverse (word → number) | updated: Jul 14, 2026

4294967296 — about 4.29 billion, the size of the IPv4 address space (and the range of a 32-bit unsigned integer). The story: rain soaks a bear on the beach; it holds up a gun on a second beach. IPv4 addresses are 32 bits, so there are 2³² ≈ 4.29 billion of them — famously too f...

Quiz: MAJOR / Powers of 2 | updated: Jul 14, 2026

Every 70s peg starts with the hard /k/ or /g/ sound (7); the second sound is the unit digit (0–9), so 70 = k·s = case, 71 = k·t = cat, and so on. 70 case · 71 cat · 72 gun · 73 game · 74 car · 75 coal · 76 cage · 77 cake · 78 cave · 79 cop Example story (make your own if this one...

Quiz: MAJOR / Peg Groups by Ten | updated: Jul 14, 2026

gun — hard /g/ = 7, /n/ = 2. Picture a smoking gun. The hard /g/ sound is a 7.

Quiz: MAJOR / Double-Digit Pegs (00–99) | updated: Jul 14, 2026

1972 → tub · gun. Dennis Ritchie developed C at Bell Labs around 1972; it underpinned Unix and nearly every language since. Peg 19 · 72 → tub · gun: a smoking gun dropped into a tub.

Quiz: MAJOR / Computer Science Numbers | updated: Jul 14, 2026