Memorisation aids

[alice]

The late great Martin Gardner, in one of his books, described a system for representing numbers which replaced the digits with consonantal phonemes, which you would then fill out with vowels to make words. IIRC it went something like this:

0 -> s z (z for "zero")
1 -> t d T D (<t> has one downstroke)
2 -> n (<n> has two)
3 -> m (<m> has three)
4 -> r (fourth letter in four")
5 -> l (from Roman L)
6 -> S Z tS dZ (<J> looks like a backward <6>)
7 -> k g (<K> can be written with two <7>'s>
8 -> f v (cursive <f> looks a bit like <8>)
9 -> p b (<P> looks like a backward <9>)

So, for example, to remember the atomic number of Indium, which is 49, you'd get /r/ /b/ - thus an indiaRuBBer.

Dies anyone know of anything similar in other languages?

[TomHChappell]

Borges's character "Funes the Memorious" spoke Argentine Spanish AFAIK, though his surname was Portuguese IIANM.