Can we have RPN back?

[Joe Horn]

(02-04-2014 11:28 PM)rlinden12 Wrote:  mmm I really don't see the issue here... Alphabetically, "x" comes before "y" (or at least it did last time I looked...) The first number entered is therefore "x" and the second is "y" therefore "x^y" seems perfectly logical to me...

The "issue" is that all the old HP 4-stack-level RPN calculators had a good reason for not doing it that way. When two values were entered, the first one was called Y and the second one was called X, because those were the names of the stack levels where they wound up. That's why some of us HP calculator old-timers find it hard to retrain our brains to stop referring to the bottom level of the stack as "X". Not all, but most of the folks here, are HP calculator old-timers, because this is a museum for old HP calculators, and old habits die hard. But don't worry...we're not too old to learn new tricks.