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Mathematical Notation

From:Dennis Paul Himes <dennis@...>
Date:Sunday, June 20, 1999, 23:00
Paul Bennett <pbennett@...> wrote:
> I may be way off the point here, but there's a very effective > mathematical notation already in existence that relies on a simple > sequence of tokens to be parsed, that'd fit rather well into a SOV > language. >=20 > It's been around for many many years, it's reasonably well known > in computing circles, it's impossible to be ambiguous and it has no > need of brackets. It's called Reverse Polish Notation.
which is, not surprisingly, just Polish Notation written backwards. = I believe Polish Notation was first invented for symbolic logic; it makes inductive proofs based on the length of a well formed formula a lot = easier. Unfortunately, I can't think of the name of the man who invented it. He = was a Pole, I know (thus the name), and I think his name started with an "L". In any event, a conlang exists using RPN. It's called Fith. It was invented by Jeffrey Henning. See http://www.langmaker.com/fith.htm. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D Dennis Paul Himes <> dennis@himes.connix.com homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm Gladilatian page: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/glad/lang.htm =20 Disclaimer: "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance = as the air." - Romeo & Juliet, Act I Scene iv Verse = 96-99