Joseph II: I don’t know whether you understood exactly what I was saying before. Yes, the P in RPN does stand for Polish, but it’s not meant to be derogatory at all. It’s not like it stands for Reverse Polack Notation. Polish is just after the nationality of the guy who invented its reverse (prefix notation). It does make me wonder, though, why they picked on his nationality. You don’t see something like Reverse American Vehicular Acceleration for the American who invented the reverse gear in my transmission.
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