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:I generally agree, but that's a problem with the stem-and-leaf concept, not a problem with this task. The point of this task, as I designed it, is an exercise in producing a visual layout of information -- which I have arbitrarily chosen to be stem-and-leaf ''with positive values''. So I hereby declare this discussion to be irrelevant to the task! There! All settled! <tt>:-)</tt> —[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 15:03, 16 December 2009 (UTC) |
:I generally agree, but that's a problem with the stem-and-leaf concept, not a problem with this task. The point of this task, as I designed it, is an exercise in producing a visual layout of information -- which I have arbitrarily chosen to be stem-and-leaf ''with positive values''. So I hereby declare this discussion to be irrelevant to the task! There! All settled! <tt>:-)</tt> —[[User:Kevin Reid|Kevin Reid]] 15:03, 16 December 2009 (UTC) |
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:: Agreed, and it's notable that this is a style of plotting that's fallen out of favour. From the perspective of RC tasks though, the main problem was that it was very poorly described in the first instance. We could do with a test dataset that forces correct handling of negative numbers too. –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 15:07, 16 December 2009 (UTC) |
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