[ROOT] Histogram bin sizes

From: K.-Michael Aye (klaus-michael.aye@durham.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 13:13:53 MEST


Hi all,

While I am learning how to 'bin' properly, I have discovered something 
odd, maybe somebody could explain that/
I attached a mini script which creates two histograms, filled by a 
simple vector with values from 1 to 10, only that the second histogram 
has a wider range to cover with the same number of bins, therefore the 
bin size should be smaller than in the first histogram.
Why does it then look from the plot as if the bins are bigger in the 
second histogram?

Many thanks,
Michael Aye

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{
gROOT->Reset();
TVector v(10);
for(int i=0;i<10;i++) v(i)=i+1;
TH1S h("h","",20,-5,15);
TH1S h2("h2","",20,-10,15);
//TH2F h("h","",10,1,10,100,1,100);
for(int j=0;j<1;j++) {
  for(int i=0;i<10;i++) {
     h.Fill(i+1,v(i));
     h2.Fill(i+1,v(i));
}
TCanvas c;
c.Divide(1,2);
c.cd(1);
h.Draw();
c.cd(2);
h2.Draw();
}



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