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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Merkuri" data-source="post: 3049102" data-attributes="member: 41321">Oh, yes.  I've learned to check numbers very carefully because of this.  I think everyone does this to some degree.  I've found that reading numbers in pairs helps.  We have case numbers at work that are usually five digits long, for example: 33214.  When I read them to myself I'll say 33-2-41 or 33-21-4 rather than 3-3-2-1-4.  I found that pairing them up helps stop me from transposing them as often.  It still happens, but not as frequently.One time when I was still living with my parents I went to call my mother at work.  I didn't have the number memorized, but I had written it down a long time ago, so I called the number on the paper.  I got a wrong number.  I dialed again, being very careful to dial the numbers exactly and got the same wrong number.  I dialed a third time, checking each digit and poking it deliberately on the phone to be sure I'd pressed the write button.  Same wrong number.  Finally, I pulled out the phone book, called the front desk at the hospital where she worked, and asked them for her department.  When I got her on the phone I asked her to confirm the number.  Turns out I had transposed the last two numbers when I wrote it down, but the thing was I had been using that same piece of paper to sucessfully dial her work number for the past month.  I must've been transposing the already-transposed numbers each time I dialed so I ended up dialing the correct number.  It was kinda freaky that I went that many phone calls without realizeing I had the number written down wrong.</blockquote>

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