Talk:Sparkline in unicode: Difference between revisions

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::::: "fractionally larger bins" is the Tcl approach I discussed in the section above. It's fine but requires careful selection of the denominator. Too big, and the bins are wider than they need to be (Tcl's mistake); too small, and it can be erased by fp errors.
 
::::: edit: the relationship between the value of <code>breaks</code> and youthe neednumber toof usebins in R is completely opaque and does not match the documentation. For example, <code>hist(0:9, breaks=7x)</code>. 8gives 2 bins havefor 7x=3; breaks.5 bins Fencepostfor errorx=4,5,6; 9 bins for x=7. --Oopsiedaisy, 26 February 2019