HP-01

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(11-06-2015 08:51 PM)Massimo Gnerucci Wrote:  

Quote:If you are of a certain age you may remember something called Reverse Polish Notation.

sigh...

What bothers me most is their choice of verbal tense, not to mention the heresy at the end:

Quote: This was a way of entering numbers and operators that saved memory space but required some mental gymnastics as you would include operators after numbers. To get three plus four, for instance, "3 4 +" would be entered. It made for speedier calculations but was not intuitive,

Someone has to tell them RPN is still alive and is not counterintuitive.