{"id":19118,"date":"2016-12-15T21:03:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=19118"},"modified":"2016-12-15T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T21:06:20","slug":"math-calculator-usage-brackets-on-the-casio-fx-260solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-calculator-usage-brackets-on-the-casio-fx-260solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Math:  Calculator usage:  brackets on the Casio fx-260Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares a discovery about the Casio fx-260Solar.<\/h1>\n<p>The Casio fx-260Solar is a great calculator.  Of course, it&#8217;s reverse entry for square root, sin, cos, tan, etc, so might be a little less popular with some people.<\/p>\n<p>When you open a bracket with the Casio fx-260Solar, <span style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">[01<\/span> might appear.  This means the depth of the brackets:  you&#8217;ve opened the first set.  If you enter the expression<\/p>\n<p>12x(6-(3-5)<sup>2<\/sup>)<\/p>\n<p>you&#8217;ll see <span style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">[02<\/span> when you open the second set of brackets.  Even though you can&#8217;t see all you&#8217;ve entered, knowing which bracket the calculator thinks you&#8217;re opening can help.  It keeps you aware of your place in the calculation, and reminds you that you&#8217;ll need to close two sets of brackets.  I think it&#8217;s a neat feature.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares a discovery about the Casio fx-260Solar. The Casio fx-260Solar is a great calculator. Of course, it&#8217;s reverse entry for square root, sin, cos, tan, etc, so might be a little less popular with some people. When you &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-calculator-usage-brackets-on-the-casio-fx-260solar\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math:  Calculator usage:  brackets on the Casio fx-260Solar<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,3],"tags":[2068,91],"class_list":["post-19118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculator-usage","category-math","tag-brackets","tag-casio-fx-260solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19118"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19130,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19118\/revisions\/19130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}