histogram=: <: @ (#/.~) @ (i.@#@[ , I.) meanstddevP=:3 :0 NB. compute mean and std dev of y random numbers NB. picked from even distribution between 0 and 1 NB. and display a normalized ascii histogram for this sample NB. note: should use population mean, not sample mean, for stddev NB. given the equation specified for this task. h=.s=.t=. 0 buckets=. (%~1+i.)10 for_n.i.<.y%1e6 do. data=. ?1e6#0 h=.h+ buckets histogram data s=.s+ +/ data t=.t+ +/(data-0.5)^2 end. data=. ?(1e6|y)#0 h=.h+ buckets histogram data s=.s+ +/ data t=.t++/(data-0.5)^2 smoutput (<.300*h%y)#"0'#' (s%y),%:t%y )