tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 18 20:22:34 2000
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Re: PN & RPN
ja' quljIb
>P.S. Why do the Poles have such weird math notation?
Poland Sep mI' mIw Delbe' permeyvam. mI' tel pongmo' chen permey.
The terms "Polish Notation" and "Reverse Polish Notation" are used because
a fellow named Jan Lukasiewicz published a book in 1951 showing how prefix
and postfix forms could represent mathematical expressions without using
parentheses. The labels have nothing to do with how math is done in Poland.
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh