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Fixing a mismatch in the documentation. #828

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Fixing mismatch between example and explanation.
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Fixing pyplot tutorial.
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Fixing mismatch between example and explanation.
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Expand Up @@ -16,13 +16,13 @@ functions are directed to the current axes
.. plot:: pyplots/pyplot_simple.py
:include-source:

You may be wondering why the x-axis ranges from 0-2 and the y-axis
You may be wondering why the x-axis ranges from 0-3 and the y-axis
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Good point, but you need to update the y-axis also; it is presently 1-4.

from 1-3. If you provide a single list or array to the
:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.plot` command, matplotlib assumes it is a
sequence of y values, and automatically generates the x values for
you. Since python ranges start with 0, the default x vector has the
same length as y but starts with 0. Hence the x data are
``[0,1,2]``.
``[0,1,2,3]``.

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.plot` is a versatile command, and will take
an arbitrary number of arguments. For example, to plot x versus y,
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