Re: RPN maps to basic mathematic expressions nicely

Rod Pemberton wrote:
> I don't recall if they converted to the "new math" or not.
> Anyway, I think that learning math has much more to do with brain
psychology
> than the "one size fits all" solution you've presented.  For example, we
now
> know that females do better in math in a cooperative environment than a
> competitive one that males prefer.
>

I had to deal with "new math" as well, and had a terrible time of it.  I
felt that learning postfix notation actually helped me a great deal with
understanding math generally -- in particular, learning to convert infix
into a tree to convert it to pre- and post- script notations.  That was,
as my high school calculus teacher used to say, an "expando-head" moment.

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