On Tuesday, March 5, 2013 11:18:27 AM UTC-5, Brad Burkman wrote: > > I was reading through the documentation at > > http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sage/plot/plot.html > > and came across this section that makes no sense. > > ***** > > When the labels have quite different orders of magnitude or are very > large, scientific notation (the e notation for powers of ten) is used: > > sage: plot(x^2,(x,480,500)) # no scientific notation > > sage: plot(x^2,(x,300,500)) # scientific notation on y-axis > > **** > > How are those two plot commands different in a way that will give scientific > notation on the y-axis? > > I think it's just that the numbers are in a wide enough range that Sage/matplotlib automatically put scientific notation there.
> What I was looking to find, which I didn't find, was how to turn off the > ticks and numbers on the axes. > > Does this work for you? sage: plot(x^3,(x,0,500),ticks=[[],[]]) > I am having my Calc I class graph f(x) = x^3 + 6x^2 - 135x, the most > reasonable cubic function with integral intercepts and extrema. I want to > put the graph up on the screen without giving away the answers. > > Suggestions? > > Thanks, > > Brad > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
