Re: Computer Language Question
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 27, 2002, 13:50 |
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Andreas Johansson scripsit:
> 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?
Well, most non-RPN calculators -- the virtual one bundled with Windows, e.g.
-- behave like that. Specifically, in an RPN calculator you compute
2 * 4 + 5 * 6 by saying 2 <enter> 4 * 5 <enter> 6 * +.
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