Re: [ROOT] ROOT-Error in histogram subtraction

From: David d'Enterria (enterria@in2p3.fr)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 23:36:58 MEST


Hi Marc-Andre,

Marc-Andre Pleier wrote:

> I just found out there seems to be a bug in ROOT when you subtract histograms:
> Instead of subtracting the values in the stats array (sumw, sumwx), they are
> added

This is a known old "feature" of ROOT :-)
http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk99/1883.html
http://root.cern.ch/root/roottalk/roottalk01/2560.html

Best regards,

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