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

asked 2019-02-05 18:26:50 +0100

chrt gravatar image

updated 2024-02-25 20:41:14 +0100

FrédéricC gravatar image

Example: plot(exp(0.017*x), (x,0,2000))

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answered 2019-02-06 06:02:42 +0100

updated 2019-02-06 06:03:43 +0100

You can use the matplotlib function FormatStrFormatter. This uses old-style Python formatting. The first argument is for the x-axis, the second for the y-axis. Using None gives the default setting.

sage: P = plot(exp(0.017*x), (x,0,2000))
sage: from matplotlib.ticker import FormatStrFormatter
sage: P.SHOW_OPTIONS['tick_formatter']=(None, FormatStrFormatter('%d'))
sage: P

I think it looks pretty horrible this way, and I would stick with scientific notation, as Emmanuel Charpentier said.

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

John Palmieri gravatar imageJohn Palmieri ( 2019-02-06 06:13:12 +0100 )edit

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

chrt gravatar imagechrt ( 2019-02-06 10:40:49 +0100 )edit

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.

kcrisman gravatar imagekcrisman ( 2019-02-09 04:57:35 +0100 )edit

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

John Palmieri gravatar imageJohn Palmieri ( 2019-02-12 16:40:11 +0100 )edit
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answered 2019-02-06 11:41:44 +0100

Sébastien gravatar image

An alternative is to use the log scale on the y-axis:

sage: plot(exp(0.017*x), (x,0,2000), scale="semilogy")

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Note that you may change the base of the logarithm this way:

sage: plot(exp(0.017*x), (x,0,2000), scale=("semilogy",3))

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See documentation of plot? for more information.

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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)

chrt gravatar imagechrt ( 2019-02-08 08:53:33 +0100 )edit
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answered 2019-02-05 23:15:48 +0100

Emmanuel Charpentier gravatar image

Well...

sage: e^(2000*0.017).n()
5.83461742527455e14

Do yoy really need 14-digits wide y-axis markers ?

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answered 2019-02-05 23:58:51 +0100

chrt gravatar image

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, within the plotcommand, plot(exp(0.017*x),(x,0,2000)).n() I get the following message AttributeError: 'Graphics' object has no attribute 'n'

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