Typing formulas

[Chris Losinger]

how about pen and paper ? Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

[Ryan Binns]

Chris Losinger wrote:

how about pen and paper ?

Exactly what I was thinking

Ryan

"Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"

[pgrohs]

What if I have to search for a special formula in my documents or if I want to change something later? Sure, pen and paper are very fast and easy to handle but a computer file is more comfortable. Furthermore electronic files can be copied and exchanged much better than paper sheets.

[V 0]

Pay attention in class. Take an occasional note with pen and paper. Most of the formulas are in the book. It's getting there you'll need to know. good luck with the studies... I've found a living worth working for, but I haven't found work worth living for. :beer:
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[Ryan Roberts]

There's Mathjournal[^] if you have a tablet. Looks super cool, not sure how useful it will be for anything other than showing off though :) Ryan

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[pgrohs]

Interesting. Thanks.

[Chris Losinger]

pgrohs wrote:

What if I have to search for a special formula in my documents

that's what brains are for.

pgrohs wrote:

or if I want to change something later?

cross is out and write the new stuff next to it.

pgrohs wrote:

Furthermore electronic files can be copied and exchanged much better than paper sheets.

exchanging notes was something i never found necessary. dragging books around to class was enough of a hassle. having to deal with a laptop (always out of battery, more valuable than everything else i owned - combined) sounds like a nightmare. Cleek | Image Toolkits | Thumbnail maker

[Wjousts]

pgrohs wrote:

I want to change something later?

Use a pencil then instead of a pen. -- modified at 13:16 Wednesday 12th July, 2006

[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

And look how far I have come! (Though to be honest I use pencil) College was the only place I found were you can talk during an exam so long as your not cheating. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the Universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." -- Stephen Crane

[pgrohs]

Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

College was the only place I found were you can talk during an exam so long as your not cheating.

Neither pen nor paper will talk to you during exam but there is Minesweeper. This is probably the reason why laptops are not allowed to be used for exam. :rolleyes:

[HamCoder]

I found that Pen/Pencil/Paper was the most flexible in class or the lab. I could jump all over the page and correct an item or add something I had missed when the professor went off on a tangent. Every afternoon/evening I would type my class notes on to cheap yellow paper and add any formulas by hand. (I was a math and econ major.) My typed notes were significantly better than the class notes because I was able to expand my notes to include much more detail (from memory) than I had had time to write. I was typing on a Smith-Corona portable typewriter. The computer we used was an IBM 1620 with 16K of core (ram). Good luck in school. HamCoder