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.
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
