1 /* PSPP - computes sample statistics.
2 Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 Written by John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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26 /* Adjust tick to be a sensible value
27 ie: ... 0.1,0.2,0.5, 1,2,5, 10,20,50 ... */
29 chart_rounded_tick(double tick)
34 double diff = DBL_MAX;
37 static const double standard_ticks[] = {1, 2, 5, 10};
39 const double factor = pow(10,ceil(log10(standard_ticks[0] / tick))) ;
41 for (i = 3 ; i >= 0 ; --i)
43 const double d = fabs( tick - standard_ticks[i] / factor ) ;
48 t = standard_ticks[i] / factor ;