[Matplotlib-users] Default axes labels: scientific notation

[Tim L. <ti...@cs...>]

Hi all,

Currently when plotting data with large numbers, the scale on each axis is
done in scientific notation, so for example you might get ticks of 1, 2, 3
then a x10^5 to indicate that it's actually 100000, 200000, 300000.

While this is a rather nice feature, I find it quite difficult to wrap my
head around numbers which aren't of the form x10^(3n). Is there some way
to change the default behaviour so that in the example above it would give
100, 200, 300 x10^3, etc?

Cheers,

Tim Leslie