Re: Formatting numbers on Plot axis
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- Subject: [mg30176] Re: [mg30143] Formatting numbers on Plot axis
- From: Omega Consulting <omega_consulting at yahoo.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 02:19:37 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
At 03:27 AM 7/31/2001, Oliver Friedrich wrote:
>Hallo,
>
>I'm plotting a function with the Plot Command. The range is from -200*10^3
>to 200*10^3. That's also exact the way I told it the system.
>How can I tell Mathematica not to display 100000 and 200000 on the x-axis
>ticks, but rather 200*10^3 or something like 200k . What are the options or
>directives to tell Mathematica to format the x-axis numbers in a special
>way.
>BTW: I'm running version 3.0
>
>Thanks a lot
>
>Oliver Friedrich
The Ticks option (a very complicated beast) will do what you want.
f[min_, max_] :=
Table[{x, ToString[Round@x/10^3] <> "k"}, {x, min, max, (max - min)/6}]
Plot[x/10^3, {x, -200*10^3, 200*10^3}, Ticks -> {f, Automatic}]