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Subject: mystery of pretty
From: "Steve Su" <s.su@qut.edu.au>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:53:34 +1000
Dear All,
 
I am wondering what is the rationale behind the the pretty function in Splus? It does not always produce the exact number of intervals required but I am not sure how does it makes the data "pretty" by looking at the code as part of it was written in Fortran?
 
 
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