Algebra teachers always want us to "rationalize the denominator", but why?

Learn why we have to rationalize the denominator when we are in our algebra class. We will go over the example that 1/sqrt(2) should be multiplied by sqrt(2)/sqrt(2) to "rationalize the denominator" but what's the reason for us to do that?

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