Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

reverse polish notation

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.36 in modern English

Syllables: re-verse pol-ish no-ta-tion
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

5

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An arithmetic notation in which numbers precede the operators to be applied to them.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Back in my day, we had reverse Polish notation calculators: You had to write "2 4 3 * +" instead of "2 + 4 * 3"."

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

postfix notation suffix notation

Questions

What does reverse polish notation mean?: An arithmetic notation in which numbers precede the operators to be applied to them.

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