On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:47 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote:
> Classical stem and leaf uses truncation not rounding, to make it easy to look 
> up values in the original data.  For the wiki data
...
> You cannot show the symmetry in i: 12, which classically would probably 
> appear as (again done by hand, t f s e are mnemonics for two-three four-five 
> six-seven eight-nine)
>
>      t | 2
>  -1   | 1 0
>      e | 9 8
>      s | 7 6
>      f  | 5 4
>      t  | 3 2
>   -0   | 1
>  +0   | 0 1
>      t  | 2 3
>      f  | 4 5
>      s | 6 7
>      e | 8 9
>   1    | 0 1
>       t | 2

I do not understand how we have any stems other than _1 0 1 for i:12.
I can see a case for -1 and -0 for small negative values, but I do not
understand what you've displayed here.

-- 
Raul
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