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From: barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman)
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Subject: Re: How to do hitograms with Improv?
Keywords: Histogram, Lotus, Improv
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.200547.29770@math.ucla.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 20:05:47 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.050649.20680@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes:

>There's not even a word "histogram" in the index of
>the manuals.

>why such a blatant omission?
>

Why indeed? In fact, I was lead to a different conclusion: since they
wouldn't make such an omission, they must simply not call it a 
histogram.

Flipping through the manual till I saw what looked like a histogram, 
I found they called it a ``bar graph''. Look under ``bar'' in the
index, and it will direct you to page 8-8, which tells you how to
many types of bar graphs. There you will also find the word ``histogram''.

One could argue that ``bar graph'' is in fact more descriptive than
``histogram''; I think their only fault is not including it in the index.

However, when you look for ``histogram'' in the index, you naturally
hit ``horizontal bar graph'' in its absence, which could have tipped
you off.


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Barry Merriman
UCLA Dept. of Math
UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research
barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)