in reply to GD::Graph::area - how to set the axis origin

If you replace the first row of data as in the example 'sample21' from the module:

['1st','2nd','3rd','4th','5th','6th','7th', '8th', '9th', '10th'],

you will see that it's nothing wrong with the graph, your expectation is wrong, the first value is 0, the second is 1 and so on. This is not a graph in the mathematical sense where you plot a function like y=f(x).