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Re: Double Prime?

From:Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
Date:Sunday, March 30, 2003, 9:34

 Sarah Marie Parker-Allen <lloannna@...> 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?


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Even better, What is Forward Polish Notation?

Adam

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(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
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> -----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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