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On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:03:49 +0700, John B. wrote:

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:21 -0000 (UTC), news18
wrote:

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 05:51:05 +0700, John B. wrote:


A bit off topic bit but does anybody know where the term "Reverse
Polish Notation" originated? One assumes that if there is a "reverse"
than there must be a "normal" also, although I never heard it used :-)

Yep, it is the reverse of polish notation.
Polish notation being operator, number, number, and RPN being number,
number, operator/operand,
or in the HP world where you load the stack
Enter Y, Enter X, Select Operator.
So, your actions effectivel follow RPN.

But where did the term come from? Do Polish people, for some reason,
count their small change that way?

I only vaguely remembered it was something to do with Mmathematics,

"I came upon the idea of a parenthesis-free notation in 1924. I used that
notation for the first time in my article �ukasiewicz(1), p. 610,
footnote."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation