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Re:The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics by lisper on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:23AM (#8182568)
I honestly can't tell if you're being ironic or not. But if you're not: what makes blackboards so excellent?
Re:The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics by duaneb on Friday August 15, 2014 @11:28AM (#8182603)
Blackboards don't generally crash, or have parse errors, or have encoding errors, or have usability problems. If you have chalk and a blackboard and have some semblance of an ability to write, you can use it to its fullest extent.
Re:The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics by Chris_Newton on Friday August 15, 2014 @04:48PM (#8184110)
Blackboards don't generally crash

But they suffer from “memory exhaustion” rather easily, to the point where even several blackboards on a funky roller system might be insufficient for a one hour lecture developing a complicated proof.

And the garbage collection causes a serious interruption and sometimes misses things.

have parse errors

Your lecturers obviously had much more legible handwriting than some of mine!

have encoding errors

Well, an encoding where P, p, and ρ all occupy the same code point might be considered ill-advised, and one where m, n, r, u, v and w may variously appear distinct or not depending on the display device in use is downright mischievous.

have usability problems

Does blocking half the lecture theatre’s view every time you write up a new formula count as a usability problem?

Re:The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics by j2kun on Friday August 15, 2014 @06:08PM (#8184532)
> But they suffer from “memory exhaustion” rather easily, to the point where even several blackboards on a funky roller system might be insufficient for a one hour lecture developing a complicated proof

This is more of a problem with people or time constraints, not the medium.

Re:The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics by lisper on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:06PM (#8182787)
Computers nowadays don't generally crash either. And when you say "Blackboards don't have parse errors" what you mean is that blackboard never tell you when you've made a mistake (because they can't). That's not a feature. It's easy to program a computer not to tell you when it detects an error. But there's a reason this is not often done: detecting errors automatically is tremendously useful, especially when you're doing math.
Re:The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics by DanBC on Friday August 15, 2014 @12:20PM (#8182854)
No weird security bugs that you need to be careful of.