An important application area of stacks is in the parsing phase in compilers. Evaluate the following postfix expression using a stack: (NB: show your workings step by step) 5 9 6 + 4 2 * * 7 + 3*+

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An important application area of stacks is in the parsing phase in compilers. Evaluate the following postfix expression using a stack: (NB: show your workings step by step)

5 9 6 + 4 2 * * 7 + 3*+ 

 
 
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