From: dh on
Hi Jim,
if I understand correctly, you have a list with values and want to get
the larges gap between adjacent values. This can e.g. be done by:

Max(a)Differences@Sort(a)data

Daniel

On 29.03.2010 13:57, Jim Lambaugh wrote:
> The reason why I am asking (I should have included this in my first
> post) is because I am trying to find a way to determine the size of
> the largest gap between the values I have in my list.
>


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From: Sseziwa Mukasa on

On Mar 29, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Jim Lambaugh wrote:

> Hi
>
> I wish to make a histogram, but the size of each bin should be
> infinitely small. So I am actually looking for something that plots
> the coordinate (x,y), where x is the value of something and y is the
> number of times the value x appears in the list.
>
> I tried BarChart and Histogram, but no luck. You guys have any ideas?


Here's a starting point

BarChart[#[[All, 2]], ChartLabels -> #[[All, 1]]] &[{First[#], Length
[#]} & /@
Split[Sort[data]]]

Regards,
Ssezi

From: Jim Lambaugh on
Thanks to all of you guys! All great solutions; I will look over them.

Thanks.