Reverse Polish Notation ==>

postfix notation

<language> (Or "Reverse Polish Notation", RPN) One of the possible orderings of functions and operands: in postfix notation the functions are preceded by all their operands. For example, what may normally be written as "1+2" becomes "1 2 +". Postfix notation is well suited for stack based architectures but modern compilers reduced this advantage considerably. The best-known language that with strictly postfix syntax is FORTH.

Compare infix notation, prefix notation.

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