reverse Polish notation

English

Noun

reverse Polish notation (uncountable)

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

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

Synonyms

• postfix notation

Translations

an arithmetic notation

• German: Umgekehrte Polnische Notation f
• Greek: αντίστροφος πολωνικός συμβολισμός m (antístrofos polonikós symvolismós)
• Japanese: 逆ポーランド記法 (gyaku Pōrando-kihō)
• Polish: odwrotna notacja polska f
• Portuguese: notação polonesa reversa f, notação polonesa inversa f
• Swedish: omvänd polsk notation c