[Coco] Cocopedia updated

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Mon Jul 29 18:27:17 EDT 2013


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com> wrote:
> Still used, in fact, with newer HP calculators and still popular enough among engineering types.  I have a reasonably (within the last five years) new HP40G+ which has an RPN mode, which I quite like.  Several computer languages -- especially stack-based languages -- use RPN style mathematical precedence.  LISP and derivatives (Scheme, for example), Forth, that kind of thing...
>

I'll give up my RPN based HP48 when they pry it from my cold, dead hands :)

Once you become comfortable on an rpn calculator, you will cringe
every time you are forced to use an algebraic one.



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