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by jackschaedler 3739 days ago
This is a great point. When I first implemented the visualization, I actually used a circle until someone pointed out to me that the formula describes a square region around the datapoint and not a circle. I think you are very right in saying that this decision was made by Groner solely for efficiencies' sake in 1966. I'll probably add a side-note to explain this a bit.