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From: bob@dolores.Stanford.EDU (Bob Lodenkamper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: RPN intuitive?
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Date: 12 Mar 91 00:15:03 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ahernsd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu's message of 11 Mar 91 21:16:49 GMT

In article <7645@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ahernsd@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Dynastar) writes:

   Also, to start a new topic: being used to RPN as I am, I find
   it frustrating to use a "normal" calculator and find myself
   constantly typing 1 = 2 + for example to add 1 and 2.  Am I the
   only one in the world who feels that RPN is the intuitively
   obvous way of doing things?

It not intuitively obvious at all, but once RPN is burned into the
fingers there is nothing more irritating than using an algebraic
calculator, having an intermediate step of a calculation in the
display and pressing 2 /, thus losing everything I've done so far.

- Bob