On 28/01/2008, at 12:07 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote:

> Jean lobry wrote:
>>>

        <snip>

>>>  about an hour North of Paris. Her father inquired -
>>>  coincidentally during the cheese course - what work I was
>>>  doing in Paris; I replied that I was researching the
>>>  activities of a Scot, William Playfair, during the
>>>  revolutionary period. I told him that Playfair had invented
>>>  several statistical graphs, including the pie chart

        <snip>


I have been for many years under the impression that the pie chart
was invented by Florence Nightingale.  Am I misinformed?

                cheers,

                        Rolf Turner

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