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I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3277/
I’ve reached the point where I constantly screw up with conventional calculators I’m so used to RPN.
I do an equivalent thing, where I English sentences with German word order say, although English my native language is.
Obligatory joke that if you take the last page out of a German book, no-one will have any idea what happened in the story.
Alternatively, (❤️ I LISP)
My first professional job was writing FORTH for fruit machines. I’d played with it a bit before on the Jupiter Ace we had which sadly never really took off despite being more elegant than the ZX81.
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Who needs PEMDAS when you have RPN :)
RPN breaks my brain, I need to refresh myself.
3 3 5 3 5 8 3 5 8 + 3 13 3 13 2 3 13 2 * 3 26 3 26 17 3 26 17 36 3 26 17 36 9 3 26 17 36 9 / 3 26 17 4 3 26 17 4 - 3 26 13 3 26 13 + 3 39 3 39 + 42Or
3 + (((5 + 8) * 2) + (17 - (36 / 9)))To be fair, my example was illustrative. The equivalent would simply be:
3 5 8 + 2 * 17 36 9 / - + +Thanks.
