List of mnemonics

This article contains lists of mnemonics used to remember various objects, lists etc.

To remember the Elements of Art: Space, Form, Texture, Shape, Line, Value, Color.

To remember the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) "Principles of Professional Conduct" from the "Code of Professional Conduct" (Responsibility, The Public Interest, Integrity, Objectivity and Independence, Due Care, Scope and Nature of Services):

There are many mnemonics for the seven layers of the OSI model in computing: physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation and application.

Because the layers are numbered from the bottom-up, many mnemonics have been developed in both directions. Here are some mnemonics that start from the bottom up:

From the top down: All People Seem To Need Data Processing.

The protocol data units (PDUs) for the OSI model (Data, Segment, Packet, Frame, Bit) can be remembered using the phrases Do Some People Fear Binary? and Don't Stop Pouring Free Beer.

The hard-to-remember PCMCIA standard was ironically encoded as "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms".

In the Linux kernel, here is a mnemonic to remember the Magic SysRq key sequence for safe reboot (unRaw, tErminate, kIll, Sync, Unmount, reBoot)

In CSS, a mnemonic for remembering the order of the shorthand versions of some selectors like border, padding and margin is TRouBLe (Top, Right, Bottom, Left; {margin: Tpx Rpx Bpx Lpx;} ).

PEMDAS- Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication & Division, Addition & Subtraction can be remembered by the phrase: "Please excuse my dear Aunt Sally". In order from left to right. Multiplication then division which ever one comes first then, addition and subtraction which ever one comes first.

BEDMAS - Brackets (parenthesis), Exponents, Division & Multiplication, Addition & Subtraction

BIDMAS - Brackets, Indices (exponents), Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction

The articulation of the quadratic equation can be sung to the tune of various songs as a mnemonic device.

ASTC stands for All Students Take Calculus, and also pertains to the more simplified mnemonic Add Sugar To Coffee, which represents the trigonometric functions that are positive in each quadrant, beginning with the top right and continuing counterclockwise: All, sine, tangent, cosine. -All Science Teachers Are Crazy -All Silver Tea Cups -Annie Spewed Terrible Curses

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