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Subject: Re: Wrong fit direction / zrange / unreadable graph file
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On 17.05.2011 08:46, Christoph Bersch wrote:

> Fitting a line to a set of data should not be such a problem.

That's only really true if the tool you use to do that fit with is a 
simplistic one.  gnuplot's "fit" is by no means simplistic.  It can 
handle much more complicated problems than simple linear regressions. 
But this power comes at a price: the tool is harder to use.