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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

postfix notation

Mathematicians normally use infix notation (where the operators are placed between the operands, such as A+B). Prefix notation places the operator first (such as +AB) while postfix notation places the operator last (such as AB+).

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infix notationprefix notationReverse Polish Notationarithmetic operatorbinary operatoroperandoperatorunary operator-- (minus, minus)++ (plus, plus)
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