Re: a small fix for hist.m

[Doug Stewart]

>> The help text can be improved by changes such as ....
>>
>> -## With one vector input argument, plot a histogram of the values
>> +## With one vector input argument, @var{y}, plot a histogram of the values
>>
>> If you're up to a bug fix, it looks to me like the example below does not 
>> produce the correct result.
>>
>> y = randn (1, 1000);
>> x = [0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 0.7 0.9];
>> hist (y, x)
>>
>> Matlab gives the attached result. Its not immediately clear to me how the 
>> bin widths are determined.
>>
>> Ben
>> <hist.pdf>
>
> I need my morning coffee ... but it looks like the edges of the bins are 
> centered between adjacent values for "x", with the outer most edges extending 
> to encompass all values of "y".
>
> Ben
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Wow I just looked at the PDF and was quit surprised!!
M*L output looks wrong.
Doug