shunting-yard algorithm

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A method for parsing mathematical expressions specified in infix notation.

Word forms

shunting-yard algorithm the shunting-yard algorithm

Etymology

By analogy to the operations in a railroad shunting yard.

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