reverse Polish notation
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reverse Polish notation
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An arithmetic notation in which numbers precede the operators to be applied to them.
Back in my day, we had reverse Polish notation calculators: You had to write "2 4 3 * +" instead of "2 + 4 * 3".
Similar: postfix notation
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noun an arithmetic notation
| 日本語 | 逆ポーランド記法 gyaku Pōrando-kihō |
|---|---|
| Português | notação polonesa reversa, notação polonesa inversa |
| Deutsch | Umgekehrte Polnische Notation |
| Ελληνικά | αντίστροφος πολωνικός συμβολισμός antístrofos polonikós symvolismós |
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title = {reverse Polish notation},
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