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reverse Polish notation

noun

Definitions

  1. 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".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reverse Polish notation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA