You are right Francisco. I was misinterpreting, and probably not having an
"x" is not an issue.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Francisco de la Peña <
delap...@lps.u-psud.fr> wrote:
> Hi Gökhan,
>
> I think that we are understanding differently the notation (what would mean
> that it is indeed confusing). For me 1e-10+3.207e-5 means: "to get your
> value read the figure from the axis, multiply it by 1e-10 and add 3.207e-5".
> The source of the confusion could be a missing "x" in front of 1e-10.
> Anyway the patch that I have submitted is not related to this problem, it
> only affects the way the offset is calculated, not the way it is displayed.
> I just tested an unmodified version of matplotlib and the "x" is not
> displayed there neither. The difference that the patch makes is that instead
> of 4x1e-8+2.995e-5 you get 99x1e-8+2.9e-5 that I think it is easier to
> read. In addition, if the number of significant figures in the axis range
> changes it takes it into account so the offset becomes human friendly for
> all the axis values.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francisco
>
> 2009/11/17 Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com>
>
>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Francisco de la Peña <
>> delap...@lps.u-psud.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gökhan,
>>>
>>> I tried your example and I couldn't find anything wrong with the offset
>>> there. However, I agree that this particular mixture of scientific notation
>>> and offset looks confusing. Maybe in that case it will be better to write:
>>> x1e-10+320700e-10 . Is it what you mean?
>>>
>>
>> I think this could be better presented collecting the base terms under the
>> same exponent (i.e 320701e-10 and further 32e-6) Doesn't this look simpler?
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Francisco
>>>
>>> El 17 de noviembre de 2009 00:58, Gökhan Sever
>>> <gokhanse...@gmail.com>escribió:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/11/15 Francisco Javier de la Peña <delap...@lps.u-psud.fr>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I find it difficult to read the values of an axis when the offset is
>>>>> active. The problem is that many time I find myself doing calculations
>>>>> like
>>>>> -1.2345e2-0.048 to find out the value of the tick. I send enclosed a patch
>>>>> and a test file to, in my opinion, improve the readability of the ticks
>>>>> with
>>>>> an offset.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Francisco
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Francisco,
>>>>
>>>> Could you try this simple case ?
>>>>
>>>> I[6]: a = np.linspace(0.00002, 0.00005, num=9348)
>>>>
>>>> I[7]: plot(a)
>>>>
>>>> Still ticks produce mingled values. Like 1e-10+3.207e-5 after some
>>>> zooming in.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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