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- noun arithmetic, logic A notation for
arithmetic (andlogical )formulae in whichoperations (respectively,quantifiers andoperands ) are written immediately before theiroperands , used to avoid the need forparentheses ; for example, 3 * (4 + 7) is written as * 3 + 4 7 and AAND B is written as AND A B.
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- noun a parenthesis-free notation for forming mathematical expressions in which each operator precedes its operands
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After the nationality of the logician Jan Łukasiewicz
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