Yet another contest ruined by a 6-line TI-Basic solution.

The contest is not just to see whether or not you can make a functional program.

It's to see who can make a cool, intuitive, small, fast functional program.

And I highly doubt you could get it down to 6 lines in basic.

There is no such thing as a "cool" RPN calculator.

not *yet* there isn't... ;)

We were actually just discussing in #calcgames the possibility of making a game/RPN calculator... kind of like guitar hero... with each operator being a note, plus one more note that each time in a row that you hit it represents a number... then afterwards it calculates the whole thing... or something, I don't know...

That's where your creativity comes in.

Okay, 50 line TI-Basic program...

So yeah, I sent in my half-assed, no effort, working RPN calculator made in TI-Basic, which takes 283 bytes.

Yeah, for the first contest I wanted to have something easier than anything else we might have.

There are a lot of beginner programmers who will be challenged by this, and it will force them to learn different techniques and will help them think differently.

Obviously this one is easy as long as you know how to do it.

I think it would be much cooler to have the contest be a program that takes in RPN, and outputs infix.

That could be an extra feature of your program.

It would definitely give you more points.

I also sent in a 168 byte version for no reason.

It's been a long time since I was here, but I was just surfing and ended up back here and I know its a calculator contest, but heres my solution in Perl since I'm too lazy to do it on the calculator:

$_=<>;print while s/(-?[\d.]+) \s+ (-?[\d.]+) \s* ([%*+\/-]) (?![\d.])/"$1 $3 $2"/eegx;

Ok all, as of about 6 hours ago (at time of writing), the contest is now CLOSED. Entries can still be sent in, but they won't be considered for winning.

Darn, I missed this because of work, etc. I've done this sort of thing a few times, emulating an HP calculator. I might work on something to run HP's on-calc RPN programming language. That would be fun. It's an interesting syntax, everything's just a list that it pushes onto the stack one at a time.

So what happened with this 'contest'?

No response yet, but there'll probably be something soon...

Ok, winners have been posted on calcG.org. Hoo-ray!