How can I avoit the scientific notation on the y-axis?

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Or you can use matplotlib.ticker.StrMethodFormatter and new-style formatting: P.SHOW_OPTIONS['tick_formatter']=(None, StrMethodFormatter('{x:.2f}')).

Thank you John, that helped. I am just at the very beginning learning Sage/Phyton, so it will take some time to find a 'good' formatting. The Idea is to show the growth of the worlds population in a readable plot

That said, the scientific notation often is not really readable. Just get "e19 e19 e19 e19" or something. I wanted to try to fix this in a clunky way years ago but never quite got around to it; still unfortunate.

For this particular graph, the axis has labels '1e14', '2e14', '3e14', etc.

I want to show the dramatic of the growth of population. With the log-scaling, this is not visible for most eyes. So I found

sage: P = plot(exp(0.0178x)1.9833/10^15, (x,0,2100)) ....: from matplotlib.ticker import FormatStrFormatter ....: P.SHOW_OPTIONS['tick_formatter']=(None, FormatStrFormatter('%d' " Mrd.")) ....: P,

which does a good 'job'. (Sorry, I don't know how to set a graphik into a comment)