Reverse Polish Notation

Reverse Polish Notation not to be confused with Reverse Reverse Polish notation. It is Notation used for algebra that is easier for programers to parse. The alternative is to compute PEMDAS and that gets into abstract syntax trees. Since Reverse Polish Notation has a association with Stacks and Stack based programing paradigms it's usually found there.

Confused? If you are that's the point. Reverse polish notation was meant to be understood by people but it's still not as easy as pemdas. So that's why we use S-expressions or just pemdas.

Person A: Hey did you hear about that Reverse Polish Notation Calculator?
Person B: You living in the 1980s or something we use pemdas.

Example of Reverse polish notation:

9 2 3 + *is equvalient to (2 + 3)* 9

by Richard565 May 29, 2024

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polish cork

A tedious circular argument concerning the merits of a historical strategic decision.

Class went long today when the professor popped another 'polish cork'--whether Bradley should have closed the Falaise pocket with multi-domain, corkscrew thinking.

by MontyFanBoi December 6, 2023

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polish farewell

When you deploy overseas for the military, and your girlfriend fucks around while you're gone. So you eat nothing but sausage and sauerkraut for nine months, and then go shit on her driveway before ringing her doorbell and running away.

"Hey, Josh is back from Afghanistan. His girlfriend cheated on him while he was gone, so he gave her a Polish farewell when he got back. Fucking classic."

by Veebs December 7, 2017

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