From: | Adam Walker <carrajena@...> |
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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? *********** Even better, What is Forward Polish Notation? Adam ****************** (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 http://www.geocities.com/lloannna.geo 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 >--- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by SURFSIDE INTERNET]
Tristan <kesuari@...> |