This is the most underrated scientific tool, ever

I've used mechanical pencils since elementary school and never looked back.

I beg to differ.

>>462321
what about blackboards and chalk?

>>462344

Whiteboards & markers are superior.

>>462327

Going to get yourself fired for using that shit. Cross out your mistakes and initial them MOTHER FUCKER!

Don't let Classics teacher hear you say that. They love chalkboards.

YES! THIS AND YELLOW PAPER!

>>462358

Absolutely not

>>462360
God, keeping a proper lab notebook was such a bitch.

>>462321
I agree completely. Always have a pencil and a mathematical A4 pad in front of my laptop.

>>462370
i remember using plain sheets of dark yellow paper for math team meets; such good times...

>>462370
Yellow papers are useful. Do not mock their blinding color!

>>462370
do people other than mathematicians use yellow paper?

>>462360
explain please.

>>462360

If making mistakes wasn't an issue for me, I'd use a pen...

But I'm not a grad student looking to rigorously maintain a lab notebook, so it doesn't matter. Point is, I love erasers.

>>462395
In real labs, you can't erase because that may mean that you changed your results. You draw a single line through it and initial it. My intro chem lab was super-strict about this and I imagine real chemists (and other scientists) are even more careful about it.

>>462394
Lawyers I think...
What's up with that shit anyway?

>>462394
I don't know, I am proud of my yellow paper. occasionally there are computer science students who come and take grad level math courses. you can tell who they are: they are taking notes on a laptop or (ugh) a tablet pc. they are also the ones who drop early.

>>462431
You motherfucker...

>>462436
=D

>>462400
It is a sad truth. In a perfect world we'd all be 100% trust worthy and I could save space by erasing mistakes.

>>462418

yellow paper has better contrast and photocopies nicely; also it's clear what is a photocopy and what is an original.

yellow paper isn't used much in the uk ;_;

>>462422
I love my yellow engineering paper. I can tell the computer science kids because they turn in homework on white notebook paper.

>>462418
Psychologists use them too.

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>>461867

>>462465

>>462400
>>462395

If you erase and anyone disputes your results & looks at your lab notebooks it looks like you intentionally falsified data. In the real world you CAN get fired for this if you're working on something big.

Real scientists use pens, cross out mistakes, initial them, and write down the correction.

Erasers have no place in the real scientific world. NO PLACE I SAY!

>>462514
holy shit thats gay, all they have to do is solve the equation (correctly) and then they can see that you were right all along.

>>462544
At this level you're talking about about things that take weeks to work out. Nobody is going to pay that cost just to separate falsified data from innocent corrections when you can just avoid the whole problem.

>>462544

Science isn't 100% math.

>>462544
No, I wish it were homosexual. Fuck, if science were more homosexual, I'd be changing my major in a heartbeat and going to grad school for the gay fucking orgy.

Then we'd be as fucking gay as we pleased while [I]still[/I] crossing out our mistakes. Fucker.