Devon,

Yes, I think the creep problem is related to the different cardinality of
the x and y variables.
To see this I tried the following with my changed line.

'hist' plot ((8+]);*:) i.5

By the way, your example made me aware for the first time that hist is a
valid type for plot.

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote:

> My example is too complicated and uses my own verb to compute the histogram
> buckets based on frequencies.  When I try to simplify the example, it makes
> me think that the problem I'm seeing is introduced by my own code - it's
> some kind of "off-by-one" error.
>
> The simple example I came up with to illustrate the problem is this:
>
>    'hist;xlabel 0 1 2 3 4 5' plot i.5
>
> but this mis-match between the labels and the data items is a specification
> mis-match: there are six labels but only five data items.  Anyway, this
> looks like the problem I'm seeing, so the underlying cause is probably the
> same.  I think I probably define n+1 buckets for n data items.
>
>
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