Re: Double Prime?

Reverse Polish Notation?

1 2 +

It's where you put the operator behind the two operands, in this case 1 and 2.
I think it was named Reverse Polish Notation because the guy who thought of
it, was Polish.  It's the way Stack-Orientated computers, eg, PCs,
Mainframes, embedded computers, etc, handle common computing tasks such as
adding, subtracting, ORing, XORing and ANDing, etc, using a stack, which is a
first on, last off data structure.  Ie, just like a stack of clothes.

Wesley Parish

On Sunday 30 March 2003 09:10 pm, you wrote:
> Egads... and here I was annoyed by how complicated we make it in English.
>
> I have a stupid question (hey, you need at least one of those a week on any
> high-volume email list!) -- what is Reverse Polish notation?
>
> (I've forwarded your comments about "Double Prime" to my friend... I have
> no way to respond to that as I have no idea who that Weisstein person is)
>
> Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
> lloannna@surfside.net
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> http://lloannna.blogspot.com
>
> "Being captured by the Evil Overlord is one way to learn his secret plans,
> but are innumerable other ways that are better, and they will be tried
> first." -- Rules for the Hero
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Behalf Of John Cowan
> > Lojban has a large mathematical subset, with ways to speak both ordinary
> > math notation and Reverse Polish while retaining all (or more than all)
> > the unambiguity of written mathematics.
> >
> >         li re du li vei re su'i re ve'o te'a pimu
> >         the-number 2 = the-number ( 2 + 2 ) to-the-power .5
> >
> >         li re du li fu'a re boi re su'i pimu te'a
> >         the-number 2 = the-number [RPN] 2 [push] 2 + .5 to-the-power
>
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