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Hah, I had no idea that others have this problem too. There must be something to this sequence that makes it very easy to memorize.


Spaced repetition makes any sequence easy to remember. Which is essentially what being the local “could you install xp”-guy was for this specific key.


Not only that, strings are easier to memorize when broken into discrete chunks, which is why it isn't too hard to accidentally memorize a credit card number, and one of the reasons phone numbers are formatted as they are (the other being classifying based on location).


Maybe the person who selected it was not fond of the president?




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