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From: akcs.joehorn@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Joseph K. Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: The APPLY function
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Date: 26 Feb 91 08:40:13 GMT
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Brian Adkins asks why APPLY is an exception to the rule that
functions have equivalent RPN and algebraic argument orders.

So does XROOT.  Strange.

Matter of fact, so do integral, derivative, and | (the WHERE
function).

The algebraic argument order is "backwards" for all of these.

-- Joseph K. Horn -- Peripheral Vision, Ltd. --