Re: plot displays a dot

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 15:01:23 +0100, Jonathan Camilleri wrote:
> I was kind of expecting the output of this function not to display a single
> dot, since the second parameter refers to y.  It would be nice to have a z
> axis as well I think this is available in other graphing commands.
> 
> plot(std(linspace(2,1000000)), 4)

Have you looked at the result of just

  std (linspace (2, 1000000))

? It returns a scalar value. So you are plotting a single X,Y pair, that
is indeed a single point.

I leave the rest of your question to someone with domain expertise.

-- 
mike