Re: various observations (added to list)

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Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> Perhaps we could dream up a syntax for controlling the number of points 
> without an obvious kluge or limitation to the number of grid points.  
> How about a "phantom" points idea as follows:
> 
> plot '-#' ...
> 
> where # is replaced by an integer?  

No. First because this is unnecessary, at least on pipe-capable platforms:

	plot "< head -5000 /dev/zero" u {rand(0)):(rand(0))

or

	plot "< seq 5000" u (rand(0)):(rand(0))

Second because I see no sane reason why, to achieve a per-dataset choice 
of sampling rate for *function* plots, we should be mucking around with 
*data* file handling like that.