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By analogy to the operations in a railroad shunting yard.
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shunting-yard algorithm
Today it means: A method for parsing mathematical expressions specified in infix notation. Full definition →
Today it means: A method for parsing mathematical expressions specified in infix notation. Full definition →
By analogy to the operations in a railroad shunting yard.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.