Crazy good deal on a 50G

[walter b]

Well, I guess bhtooefr wanted to respond here but didn't find the <Quote> button:

(02-23-2015 11:28 PM)bhtooefr Wrote:  In my opinion, the RPL machines are more "pure". Operations behave in a more consistent manner, and because the stack is infiniteish, commands that often take operands after the command on a RPN machine (to save stack space - think STO and RCL), take them before the command on an RPL machine.

Please allow me to quote from the WP 34S manual:

Quote:This is the essence of RPN:
Provide the necessary operands, and then execute the requested operation.

And a major advantage of RPN compared to other calculator operating systems is that it sticks to this basic logic – always.*

* Some people claim this being true for RPL only. Maybe they are even right. In my opinion, however, RPL strains the underlying postfix principle beyond the pain barrier, exceeding the limit where it becomes annoying for human brains. Not for everybody, of course, but also for many scientists and engineers. Thus we stick to classic RPN on the WP 34S.

d:-)