Reverse Polish notation is, therefore, a notation where operands are written or entered before operators, often because a stack is being used to hold temporary values and RPN maps extremely well to pushing things onto a stack to store them and popping them back off in reverse order (Last-In, First-Out) to operate on them.
Hewlett-Packard is famous for making calculators that operate on this principle. It’s a style some people swear by, to the point of feeling cramped if they have to do arithmetic on algebraic calculators.
A double-length Chesterfield coat, brought to much disfavor within the court of George V when the wags at Punch brought to his attention that the wearers tended to look like well-bred slugs. Cutting holes partway down the front for the wearer’s legs did little to ameliorate the effect.
A young George Lucas was greatly affected by a picture of Winston Churchill wearing a double Chesterfield; Jabba the Hutt was loosely based on this image.
Doublechester Field was an early baseball stadium located in Charleston SC, named after the Doublechester Chewing Tobacco Company which sponsored its construction. Company owners and twin brothers Thaddius and Ezekiel Chester were fans of the game from its earliest days and had the baseball diamond built in 1904 both to encourage the growth of the game and as a commercial operation. Vendors would sell tins of chewing tobacco to the fans sitting in the bleachers, which had built-in spittoons at regularly-spaced intervals. The Chesters also sponsored a company team, known as the “Baccywhackers”, although what records survive suggest that they rarely won a game.
In 1913 following some bad investments the Doublechester Company was forced to close and without its support Doublechester Field fell into disuse. It was torn down in 1924, becoming little more than a footnote in the grand history of baseball.
Double Chesterfield was an experimental tartan pattern developed by British fashion house Burberry in 1966 in an attempt to appeal to the less conservative youth market. It featured a traditional tartan plaid in bright yellow, pink and green intertwined with a deep red paisley pattern. The end result was not only shunned by the youth Burberry had hoped to attract but was generally considered by the fashion industry to be “hideously ugly” and “deeply misguided”. Burberry withdrew all clothing featuring the Double Chesterfield pattern within six weeks of its release and has carefully avoided any subsequent reference to it.
A “Chesterfield” is a golf shot in which the ball is hit into a water hazard at such an angle that it “skips” off the surface and lands safely on the other side of the obstacle. The much-rarer “Double Chesterfield” involved two skips, the design of a standard golf ball making this extremely unlikely to occur.
This is not to be confused with a “Steppington” in which the ball bounces off a stone, animal (e.g. turtle, alligator), plant or other hard surface lying within the water hazard.
“The Double Chesterfield” is position #87 in the obscure Victorian erotic publication “The British Kama Sutra”. Although clearly written with a satirical bent, the subject matter nonetheless prevented wider publication and only three copies are known to still exist, two of which are held in the British Library’s Rare Books and Manuscripts collection.
According to accounts of the book, performing the Double Chesterfield requires the assistance of the parlourmaid, a teapot with a very long spout, two Corgis and the permission of the local lord of the manor (to be obtained in advance).
A “Double Chesterfield” is a move in wrestling in which each of the wrestlers has one of his opponent’s arms pinned behind his back at the same time. It’s very difficult to describe without the use of pictures and diagrams. The position is usually resolved by the referee calling for both wrestlers to break their hold and begin again, although it used to be broken by the complicated Krummbacher Overhold maneuver; the Krummbacher has now been banned in competitive wrestling due to the high number of ruptured spleens incurred.
I came to this thread expecting to find a new way to tie a necktie, seriously. As in a half or full Windsor. Of course, as I suspected, the double Chesterfield is a closely guarded secret known only to a few British valets. It is used only in emergency situations to attract women to certain bland royal family members