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<node id="82015" title="Re: Re: Re: Re: (Golf) Reversing RPN Notation" created="2001-05-21 17:10:37" updated="2005-07-27 09:42:58">
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MeowChow</author>
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The purpose of associativity is to resolve ambiguities between operators of &lt;i&gt;equal precedence&lt;/i&gt;. Associativity isn't specified on a "yes/no" basis, but on left-to-right, or right-to-left basis. All trivial arithmetic operators excluding exponentiation are left-to-right.
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