On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:54:10 +0000, Joerg wrote:
Fred Abse wrote:
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:38:14 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

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If you want a good laugh, lend a reverse Polish calculator to a bean
counter.

I did that! Not out of malfeasance, I plain forgot that there are people
that use non-RPN calculators. Since nobody else in that meeting had a
calculator he asked me to run the numbers after after having given up.
Then at the end one guy let off a comment along the lines of "Ah, these
MBA types just don't know, lemme show you how it's done." A minute later
he sat there totally red in the face.

I got into a mini-holy war with an(a?) RPN guy once. He said, "Well,
you don't write down '2', then add, then write down '3'. You write
'2', then '3', then add."

I said, "But I don't want to write them down - I want the machine to
do the work! I just want to know, "two plus three equals what?"[1]

And when you're subtracting or dividing, how do you know which is
which?

Thanks,
Rich
[1] five. ;-)