can anyone tell me that if the no.2 pencil is the best,why is it still no.2?
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Yeah and how come you never see the number one pencils. Maybe only the elite members of society can see them.
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I think zero is the best, they have alot of concave. Any questions email me.
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Most are mass produced with a cost over quality approach. You end up with shoddy materials, poor quality checking at the manufacturing side and a "don't care" mentality.  American consumers purchase pencils based on cost more than quality though so you can't really fault their business model.
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pencils can be used while in space\npencils can be used to write stuff upside down\npencils don't leak in your pockets\nif you have one pencil between two people - you can always break it and two people can use it...\n\nSEE also:\nADVANTAGES OF PENCIL\n   \nA pencil stroke is erasable and thus correctable.\n\nPencil writing is environmentally friendly, since all materials used in manufacture are of "natural" origin. Moreover, wood is a renewable natural resource.\n\nA pencil writes in/under water, in a vacuum and "upside down".\n\nPencil writing is absolutely non-toxic, because all ingredients used in manufacture consist of entirely safe substances (clay, graphite, wood, water-based lacquer).\n\nPencils can even be used on extremely cold and hot days, as the lead does not react to temperature fluctuations.\n\nPencils are always "ready-to-write" and can even be sharpened with a knife.\n\nPencil quality has always been consistently good over the years. (e.g. degrees of hardness).\n \nwww.faber-castell.de
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because mathematically speaking +2 is a larger value than \n-2 and people like things with positive value better than things with a negative value.  so thanks for the points
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Well i have written in pen for most of my life. Up until my last years in high school it's mostly been pen. I feels like a step into adulthood with a pen. It's kinda symbolic. I relate pencils with childhood and pens with adulthood. How, you ask? as a kid, most problems could be fixed and changed with ease. No worries, with a pencil just erase the mistakes. But as an adult, problems seem like you're in hell and can't be removed as easily. as with a pen, the mistakes are much more difficult to erase or get rid of. But yeah,  i like writing with a pen more. :)
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muse is good but its a little close minded to say that they are the best ever. even muse will say that they were inspired by some great artists.
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I've seen it done in period films where a person licks the tip of a quill (maybe to clean off any dry ink). Some people do it lubricate the ball in a ball-point pen, but I really don't think it helps at all. I guess they just think it looks cool.\n\nLicking the 'lead' in a pencil can not harm you because it is not really lead. It is actually graphite. All modern pencils are made with it. So, there's not way you can get lead poisoning
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Pencils are made industrially by mixing finely ground graphite and clay powders, adding water, forming long spaghetti-like strings, and firing them in a kiln. The resulting strings are dipped in oil or molten wax which seeps into the tiny holes of the material, resulting in smoother writing. A juniper or incense-cedar plank with several long parallel grooves is cut to make something called a slat, and the graphite/clay strings are inserted into the grooves. Another grooved plank is glued on top, and the whole thing is then cut into individual pencils, which are then varnished or painted.\n\nMany pencils, particularly those used by artists, are labelled on the European system using a scale from "H" (for hardness) to "B" (for blackness), as well as "F" (for fine point). The standard writing pencil is "HB". However, artist's pencils can vary widely in order to provide a range of marks for different visual effects on the page. A set of art pencils ranging from a very hard, light-marking pencil to a very soft, black-marking pencil usually ranges from hardest to softest as follows:\n\n9H 8H 7H 6H 5H 4H 3H 2H H F HB B 2B 3B 4B 5B 6B 7B 8B 9B \n\nThis translates between American and European ranges thusly:\n\nU.S.      Europe\n#1     =     B\n#2     =    HB   (most common)\n#2 1/2 =     F   (also seen as 2 4/8, 2.5, 2 5/10,   due to patent issues)\n#3     =     H\n#4     =    2H\n\nSo, as you see, the #2 pencil is used because it is a "lead" density that isn't too hard or too soft for writing in standard writing use.\n\nI am an artist and use all of these various types of pencils.  \n\nBTW, there is no actual Lead in pencils.  That is a myth.
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touch pads usually sense the heat from your body. since the pencil isn't as warm as body temperature, it doesn't work. \ntry using your toes.
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honestly #1 and #2 help but are not always the best. #3 is probably most preferred.
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pencil- the history of the pencil dates back to the prehestoric period when the primitive people discovered that charcoal could be used as a means of writing figures on the wall of caves and utnil today the pencil has been used as means of writing.\n\nchair-the chair was not too far away from where the pencil was invented since the primitive people also needed somewhere to sit while they were writing on the walls of the caves so that is why they thought of the chair.\n\ndoor- the door also dates back to about the same time the pencil and the chair where invented when one of the same primitive people was trying to find a way to close the opening of the cave while they were writing on the walls of the cave so they wouldent get cold at night.\n\npizza-the primitive people had to make something easy to eat while they were writing on the walls of the cave so that it wouldnt be all messy when they were writing and thats when they thought of domino's pizza.\n\ngood luck.
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pencils are good and relativly cheep, also stickers are fun for kids of that age, i suggest you go to the dollar store and run amuck.
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if you like the pencil it is in then keep it, but you can go to Dollar Tree and buy like a 10 pack for a dollar.  You can't buy refills
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Get this, I have the same thing, one on each hand. And I was unfortunate enough to sit on one in grade school, so I have graphite on my bum.  I have asked the doctor if it is anything to worry about, and he said "no".  As long as the pencil was graphite and not lead there is no problem.  Graphite is not toxic to the human body, so we are in the clear!!
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Yes.  They represent different grades of pencil.  I do a lot of pencil sketching and use many grades of pencil depending on the need and effect I'm looking for.\n\nIt's been my experience that the softer grades are great for contrast and shading. They're also good for darkening large areas of a drawing.  They do tend to "cake up" and smudge easily if too much is applied.\n\nThe harder grades are great for fine lines and when exact detailing is required.  They can hold a razor sharp point longer too.  Harder grades are okay for light shading but not very good when there's a need for a lot of high contrast darkening.\n\nThe following link shows a visual grading scale for reference.\n\nCheers
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TimGNO is correct, although a pedant would point out that he hasn't shown this point is a maximum.  But  it is common sense.  See my response to the second time you asked the question, I got the same answer (foolishly mucking around with tangents), but make a couple of other observations you may wish to look at.