how many words can be written with a standard #2 pencil?

Answer 1

too many variables. Pressure of the writer on the tip, length of words, coarseness of the paper, brand of pencil, how many times one must sharpen the pencil, which mine the lead came from, etc. (especially the etc.--that's crucial).

If the question is : How "many words"can be written with a standard #2 pencil?then the answer would be however many styles of writing exist,i.e., block, forward slant, backward slant, calligraphy, etc. (Once again, that etc. is crucial.)

Answer 2

This is a perfect situation in which to use a Fermi approximation. In this method, only the order of magnitude is important, not the exact value. Assume a pencil is 10 cm long (because it's certainly much longer than 1 cm and much shorter than 100 cm), L, and the diameter of the writing point, D, is 1mm. Then you can make a volume of marking equal to V = D^2 * L = 1e-7 m^3 (note that pi/4 ~ 1). Assume that the thickness of a deposited layer of pencil marking, t, is 1 um. It's not a high confidence guess at all, I'll admit. A marked line, then, has cross-sectional area equal to A = D*t = 1e-9 m^2, letting you mark a length of L_m = V/A = 100 m, ignoring losses from pencil sharpening. The number of words depends on how big you write. I will guess that an average word has an arc length, L_w, of 10 cm. Then you can write L_m/L_w = 1000 words. I'm sure you can actually write more than that, so perhaps the marked thickness is less. Atoms are on the order of 100 pm in diameter, so it can't be quite that small. But maybe its ten times that, 1 nm. That multiplies the total written arc length by a factor of a thousand, so now you can write a million words. That sounds about right to me, but it's still not really high-confidence.

Answer 3

It's not going to be an exact number across the board. It's going to depend on how hard or soft you write, how long the words are and how many times you break the tip.

Answer 4

It may very and depend upon the person who is using the pencil . We cannot count.

Answer 5

it's up to how hard you write, the size of words, the material you write on, how you sharpen the pencil, and so on

Answer 6

It'll also depend on how many mistakes you make and how many times you have to erase and re-write things☺


Doug

Answer 7

depends on if you use big words or not. the size of your writing

Answer 8

from english to um whatever u want to write on paper

Answer 9

same as how many licks it takes to get to the center of a lolly pop

Answer 10

Unsharpened? Not many.