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Partway through college I bought an old HP-48 and suddenly had this realization. The TI system encourages you to enter exactly what you see on the page, plus a whole bunch of parentheses because calculators are dumb and everyone's paranoid about order of operations. With RPN, you just do the math.


> plus a whole bunch of parentheses because calculators are dumb and everyone's paranoid about order of operations

Oh yeah.. and no paren matching either and iirc multiline editing was inconvenient enough that i never used it.




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