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Bucket Numbers into Histogram Bin Counts in Python

Partition a list of numbers into equal-width histogram bins and count how many fall into each bin using only the Python standard library.

histogram bins statistics
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from collections import Counter

def histogram_bins(numbers, num_bins):
    """Bucket numbers into histogram bin counts."""
    if not numbers:
        return []
    
    min_val = min(numbers)
    max_val = max(numbers)
    bin_width = (max_val - min_val) / num_bins
    
    # Handle edge case where all values are id…
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