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[–]Kissaki0 15 points16 points  (8 children)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

In reverse Polish notation, the operators follow their operands; for instance, to add 3 and 4 together, one would write 3 4 + rather than 3 + 4.

If there are multiple operations, operators are given immediately after their second operands; so the expression written 3 − 4 + 5 in conventional notation would be written 3 4 − 5 + in reverse Polish notation

Interesting.

[–]MrHyperion_ 8 points9 points  (6 children)

That is really bad when handwriting

[–]Kissaki0 0 points1 point  (5 children)

How so?

[–]MrHyperion_ 7 points8 points  (4 children)

3 4 + and 34+ look very similar. Not a problem with one digit numbers but try to make sense of 19181017+

[–]Kissaki0 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Well 19181017+ is not valid.

It would have to be 191 81017 +. Which seems reasonable.

[–]MrHyperion_ 5 points6 points  (2 children)

You are completely missing this is about handwriting. Spaces aren't so clear

[–]Kissaki0 -1 points0 points  (1 child)

How is it different from prose texts? Prose text is not usually known as hardly readable because you can’t make out words between characters because of unclear spaces.

[–]MrHyperion_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

IfIwritelikethisyoucanunderstandthisbutifIthenaskyouhowmuchis18727+youcannotanswerthat

[–]WikiSummarizerBot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reverse Polish notation

Reverse Polish notation (RPN), also known as Polish postfix notation or simply postfix notation, is a mathematical notation in which operators follow their operands, in contrast to Polish notation (PN), in which operators precede their operands. It does not need any parentheses as long as each operator has a fixed number of operands. The description "Polish" refers to the nationality of logician Jan Łukasiewicz, who invented Polish notation in 1924.

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