Re: Double Prime?

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?

(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)

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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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