Simson Garfinkel wrote: > It really depends on your audience as to whether or not 1,000,000 > through 9,000,000 is better displayed in scientific notation or not. > For audiences that I frequently present to, any scientific notation > is just unacceptable. You can add quantifiers (like KBps, MBps, > GBps), but presenting something a 5e+5 Bps will just be lost. You > *might* get away with e+3, e+6, and e+9, but never the other e's. > Ah, "Engineering" notation - that could be a useful helper function.
DG > > On Dec 18, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Darren Dale wrote: > > >> On Saturday 16 December 2006 20:00, Simson Garfinkel wrote: >> >>> 1. I think that scientific notation should not be the default, unless >>> numbers exceed 1E+7. >>> >> There are good reasons to use scientific notation for smaller >> numbers than >> 10e+-7: We dont want neighboring tick labels to run into each other >> on the x >> axis, and we dont tick labels to run out of the window on the y >> axis. For >> examples, see the attachments at the bottom of this page: >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? >> func=detail&aid=1196027&group_id=80706&atid=560720 >> >> Darren >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- ERD/ORR/NOS/NOAA <http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/emergencyresponse/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
