RPN Calculator

[darthwhatever]

Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) is a math notation in which each operator follows its two operands. I own an HP 48G calculator which uses RPN, and when I tried to use the windows calculator I had so much trouble that I wrote my own calculator. Basically, it has a stack of numbers; any time an operator is pressed, that operation is carried out immediately on the two items on the bottom of the stack, or the stack and the input if there is anything in the input. This method reduces the requirements for parenthesis and makes calculating equations/functions relatively easy: instead of

(sqrt(5+8))/(8*9)

you would enter

5 ENTER 8 + SQRT 8 ENTER 9 * /

Practical implications

Suggestions/advice/criticisms are greatly appreciated!

calc2.au3

Edited January 29, 2013 by darthwhatever

[jaberwacky]

Where do we get mathfuncs.au3?

[darthwhatever]

Whoops. I was going to add the option for the user to add functions, but decided that was too much of a pain. Attached file is updated.

[TheAutomator]

if you just type a minus:

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AutoIt Error

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Line 265  (File "calc2.au3"):

 

$aStack[uBound($aStack) - 1] -= $iLast

$aStack[^ ERROR

 

Error: Variable subscript badly formatted.

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OK   

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regards,

TheAutomator

Edited September 8, 2014 by TheAutomator

[DreamVB]

Thank you for shareing this will help a lot as I am also trying to make a Math Evalulator for a project I am working on.