{"id":53168,"date":"2026-08-25T13:53:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=53168"},"modified":"2026-08-25T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:53:56","slug":"calculator-use-rationalizing-the-denominator-on-the-sharp-el-w535","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/calculator-use-rationalizing-the-denominator-on-the-sharp-el-w535\/","title":{"rendered":"Calculator use: rationalizing the denominator on the Sharp EL-W535"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring math, calculator use comes up. The tutor mentions using the Sharp EL-W535 WriteView.<\/h2>\n<p>The following is by my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nI show back in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/math-radicals-rationalizing-the-denominator-part-ii\/\">my post from Aug 17, 2026<\/a> a case of rationalizing the denominator by multiplying both numerator and denominator by the conjugate. However, some hand-held calculators will do the operation automatically.<\/p>\n<p>\nIf one enters the fraction 1\/(2-\u221a3) into the Sharp EL-W535 WriteView, then presses =, the answer 2+\u221a3 will appear. In this case, the Sharp EL-W535 realizes that the intended operation is to simplify, so rationalizes the denominator and displays it the way a human would.<\/p>\n<p>\nInteresting, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/productadmin.sharp.ca\/\/uploads\/product_downloads\/ELW535XGBBL_BRD_BWH_manuals_English.pdf\">productadmin.sharp.ca<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, calculator use comes up. The tutor mentions using the Sharp EL-W535 WriteView. The following &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/calculator-use-rationalizing-the-denominator-on-the-sharp-el-w535\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Calculator use: rationalizing the denominator on the Sharp EL-W535<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/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":[116,119,1082],"class_list":["post-53168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calculator-usage","category-math","tag-radicals","tag-rationalizing-the-denominator","tag-sharp-writeview-el-w535"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168","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=53168"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53174,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53168\/revisions\/53174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}