Why does the upper limit on the x-axis of a bar chart round up to the next highest power of ten in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) and prior versions?

When I create a bar chart using the following commands,

A = rand (64, 1); 

bar(A);

I obtain a plot, which has the following x-axis limits:

      0    70

The documentation states:

 The x-axis scale ranges from 1 to length(Y) when Y is a vector, and 1 to size(Y,1), which is the number of rows, when Y is a matrix.

This suggests the upper limit on the x-axis should be 64.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

This bug has been fixed in Release 14 Service Pack 2 (R14SP2). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

This has been verified as an error in the documentation in MATLAB 7.0.1 (R14SP1) and previous versions.

To obtain the behavior described in the documentation, use the following command:

set(gca,'xlim', [1 length(A)]);