Re: Formatting numbers on Plot axis
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- Subject: [mg30161] Re: [mg30143] Formatting numbers on Plot axis
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 02:19:16 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a message dated 2001/7/31 5:17:29 AM,
oliver.friedrich at tz-mikroelektronik.de writes:
>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
>
Plot[x/1000, {x, -200*^3, 200*^3},
Ticks -> {Join[
Table[{xt, ToString[xt/1000]<>"k",
{0.00625,0.},
{GrayLevel[0.],
AbsoluteThickness[0.25]}},
{xt, -200*^3, 200*^3, 100*^3}],
Table[{xt, "",
{0.00375,0.},
{GrayLevel[0.],
AbsoluteThickness[0.125]}},
{xt, -200*^3, 200*^3, 100*^3}]],
Automatic}];
Bob Hanlon
Chantilly, VA USA