How do you chunk your Mileage Plus number?
Jan 29, 2009, 10:32 am
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How do you chunk your Mileage Plus number?
I was looking at my 1K card today, and I noticed that it chunks my MP number as follows:
XXXXX XXX XXX
An RCC agent recently chunked it this way:
XX XXXX XXX XX
I always read it this way:
XXX XXX XXXXX
While realizing that my way is the only correct way and every other way is varying degrees of wrong, I thought I'd ask how you chunk your MP number. I'd even summarize the results to see the distribution of wrongness across all you all
EDIT:
Through Post #150, it's clear I underestimated the 2-3-3-3 crazies, who have stormed back to within 2 of the 5-3-3 nutsos, 36 to 38. My fellow 3-3-5 folks are making incremental proportional progress by advancing to 13. In my last sweep, we added a whopping three new chunking methods, 1-3-3-4, 2-2-2-2-3, and two weirdos with 2-4-2-3. What can you do?
4 11-----
2 2-4-5---
13 3-3-5---
3 3-4-4---
1 4-2-5---
15 4-3-4---
3 4-4-3---
38 5-3-3---
1 6-2-3---
1 1-3-3-4--
1 1-3-4-3--
3 2-2-3-4--
1 2-2-4-3--
2 2-3-2-4--
36 2-3-3-3--
2 2-4-2-3--
1 2-4-3-2--
2 3-2-2-4--
11 3-2-3-3--
1 3-3-2-3--
4 3-3-3-2--
1 5-2-2-2--
3 1-3-1-3-3-
1 2-2-2-2-3-
1 2-2-3-1-3-
1 3-2-1-2-3-
2 3-2-2-2-2-
1 2-2-2-2-2-1
If you posted your chunking methods for your friends and family, I also included those in the count. If you posted two ways for one number, I took the first.
PM me if there's a way to do tables in these posts.
XXXXX XXX XXX
An RCC agent recently chunked it this way:
XX XXXX XXX XX
I always read it this way:
XXX XXX XXXXX
While realizing that my way is the only correct way and every other way is varying degrees of wrong, I thought I'd ask how you chunk your MP number. I'd even summarize the results to see the distribution of wrongness across all you all
EDIT:
Through Post #150, it's clear I underestimated the 2-3-3-3 crazies, who have stormed back to within 2 of the 5-3-3 nutsos, 36 to 38. My fellow 3-3-5 folks are making incremental proportional progress by advancing to 13. In my last sweep, we added a whopping three new chunking methods, 1-3-3-4, 2-2-2-2-3, and two weirdos with 2-4-2-3. What can you do?
4 11-----
2 2-4-5---
13 3-3-5---
3 3-4-4---
1 4-2-5---
15 4-3-4---
3 4-4-3---
38 5-3-3---
1 6-2-3---
1 1-3-3-4--
1 1-3-4-3--
3 2-2-3-4--
1 2-2-4-3--
2 2-3-2-4--
36 2-3-3-3--
2 2-4-2-3--
1 2-4-3-2--
2 3-2-2-4--
11 3-2-3-3--
1 3-3-2-3--
4 3-3-3-2--
1 5-2-2-2--
3 1-3-1-3-3-
1 2-2-2-2-3-
1 2-2-3-1-3-
1 3-2-1-2-3-
2 3-2-2-2-2-
1 2-2-2-2-2-1
If you posted your chunking methods for your friends and family, I also included those in the count. If you posted two ways for one number, I took the first.
PM me if there's a way to do tables in these posts.
Last edited by fadeforward; Feb 2, 2009 at 12:14 am
Jan 29, 2009, 10:34 am
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I always chunk it when I see the food in F on domestic flights. 
Seriously though, I always think of it like it is on the card: XXXXX XXX XXX
Seriously though, I always think of it like it is on the card: XXXXX XXX XXX
Jan 29, 2009, 10:35 am
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Slow day at the office? 
XXXX XX XXXXX
The reason for chunking it with five digits at the end has to do with those digits being in sequence and so easy to remember.
XXXX XX XXXXX
The reason for chunking it with five digits at the end has to do with those digits being in sequence and so easy to remember.
Jan 29, 2009, 10:37 am
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Jan 29, 2009, 10:37 am
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xx xxx xxx xxx
Basically as it appears on the card, except I separate the 00 at the beginning.
Basically as it appears on the card, except I separate the 00 at the beginning.
Jan 29, 2009, 10:39 am
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xxxxx xxx xxx
Jan 29, 2009, 10:41 am
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XXX XX XXX XXX
Since I have an old account, the first three digits are "000", hence it's easier for my pea brain to truncate the leading digits and start with the rest of my account number. I also have a Boeing aircraft type in my number, so that one easily comes to mind.
Since I have an old account, the first three digits are "000", hence it's easier for my pea brain to truncate the leading digits and start with the rest of my account number. I also have a Boeing aircraft type in my number, so that one easily comes to mind.
Jan 29, 2009, 10:43 am
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XXXXX XXX XXX
But chunk Ripper-moms as
XXXX XXX XXXX
Because of the way the numbers flow.
But chunk Ripper-moms as
XXXX XXX XXXX
Because of the way the numbers flow.
Jan 29, 2009, 10:45 am
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For me, it's XXXX XXX XXXX. I have a leading 0, so without it it works like a NANP phone number (including the area code).
Jan 29, 2009, 10:46 am
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xxx xx xx xxxx
Jan 29, 2009, 10:47 am
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For me.. its..
XXXX XXXX XXX 4/4/3 even with a preleading 0, I've always felt that this was the easiest way for me to remember it.
XXXX XXXX XXX 4/4/3 even with a preleading 0, I've always felt that this was the easiest way for me to remember it.
Jan 29, 2009, 10:47 am
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I am too dumb to chunk more than 3 numbers, so for me it's:
xxx xxx xxx xx
xxx xxx xxx xx
Jan 29, 2009, 10:47 am
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The word you are looking for is parse.
And I don't parse mine . . .
And I don't parse mine . . .