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Re: Computer Language Question

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 11:51
John Cowan wrote:
>Keith scripsit: > > > Well FORTH and its derivatives (Postscript and the Klingon computer > > language) work just like this. It's called "Reverse Polish Notation" -- > > anyone know why? Some early pocket calculators worked like this too. > >Why does everyone think that HP scientific calculators don't exist any >more? >Just last year I bought my daughter one, and it's a hell of an advance over >the one I had in high school -- but still RPN.
Is RPN the kind of syntax where you first press "1" and then "sin" to get the calculator to return a numerical value of sin 1? If so, it was one of the banes of the later years of my elementary school (years 7-9, or so). Our math books had alot of little helpful boxes telling you to solve various kind of problems on a calculator, all pretty uselss to me since it was given in that kind of syntax, while my calculator only accepted "normal" syntax (ie press first "sin", then "1" in the above example). Andreas _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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