Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30

Re:Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30 by ubasu on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @07:01PM (#2512015)

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It runs on an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation,"

Now I need to go and dig up my 15c

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Re:Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30 by lukifer on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @01:04AM (#2512856)

Ironically, the usage would have been valid as a non-compound term if it had been describing the person rather than the device:

To use the calculator, one must adopt an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation".

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Re:Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30 by andymoe on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @12:08AM (#2512768)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

It's not as fun as it sounds. Advent Axys, a portfolio management system I used to work with, has a whole reporting language called RepLang that uses notation like this.

Fun fact: Advent Software[1] was the second largest software company in San Francisco as of 2007 - not sure if that's still the case.

[1] http://www.advent.com

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Re:Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30 by monochromatic on Tuesday May 03, 2011 @10:29PM (#2512552)

Also, "H-P"

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