Comments on: Reverse Polish Sausage

By: peter

peter — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:29:59 +0000

“In normal notation if you wanted to add the numbers 3, 4, and 5 you would write 3 + 4 + 5. Using reverse polish notation it would be written as 3 4 5 +”

Actually, it would be written as 3 4 5 ++

By: Polska

Polska — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:11:21 +0000

Ya I agree that once you get used to it, it is the only way to go. Saves some finger work for sure.

By: Luciano

Luciano — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:12:24 +0000

please don’t misplace apostrophes in a website devoted to explaining xkcd.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:10:43 +0000

The bun is two arguments (Left half and Right half), not one.

By: paotrip

paotrip — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:26:32 +0000

yeah, so why is the sausage out of the bun? sausage is the operator?

By: überRegenbogen

überRegenbogen — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:55:09 +0000

It’s the main reason that i love HP calculators.
Once you’re used to it, it really is the only way to fly.

By: Max

Max — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:21:38 +0000

Postfixins is a pun on postfix (the plus is at the end) and fixin (ketchup, mustard, etc.).

By: Snipe

Snipe — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:57:44 +0000

Hah, I remember that being the reason I hated HP graph calculators.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:04:05 +0000

What Allan said.

Using RPN, the example above could be calculated one of two ways:

3 4 + 5 +

or:

3 4 5 + +

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:40:51 +0000

It can also be 3 4 + 5 +