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Steve Kraus
 
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Default The 50 Greatest Gadgets of the Past 50 Years

I just never could follow a mindset that expresses an equation as

one enter one plus two

when it's meant to be

one plus one equals two


RPN had the advantage of unambiguous operation order (I don't think you
need parenthesis) but not following convention makes it alien to most
people.