My school let you have two calculators so you could have notes on one of them and use the other. I don't really understand why, I'd rather just have paper notes

My school let you have two calculators so you could have notes on one of them and use the other. I don't really understand why, I'd rather just have paper notes. Fun things to play with though, the HP38G's we had had a nifty infrared communication thing so you could trade stuff with other people.