Polish notation

Polish notation
A notation for arithmetic (and logical) formulae in which operations (respectively, quantifiers and operands) are written immediately before their operands, used to avoid the need for parentheses; for example, 3 , (4 + 7) is written as , 3 + 4 7 and A AND B is written as AND A B.

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  • Polish Notation —   [engl.], polnische Notation …   Universal-Lexikon

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  • Polish notation — noun a parenthesis free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator precedes its operands • Syn: ↑prefix notation, ↑Lukasiewicz notation • Hypernyms: ↑parenthesis free notation …   Useful english dictionary

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  • Reverse Polish notation — (or just RPN) by analogy with the related Polish notation, a prefix notation introduced in 1920 by the Polish mathematician Jan Łukasiewicz, is a mathematical notation wherein every operator follows all of its operands. It is also known as… …   Wikipedia

  • reverse Polish notation — noun 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 . Syn: postfix notation …   Wiktionary

  • reverse Polish notation — noun Date: 1975 a system of representing mathematical and logical operations in which the operands precede the operator and which does not require the use of parentheses < (3 + 5) (2 + 1) in reverse Polish notation is expressed as 3 5 + 2 1 + >… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Reverse Polish notation —   [engl.], umgekehrte polnische Notation …   Universal-Lexikon

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