Mathematical Notation

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.
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> 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.

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
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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
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