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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Setting axis ticks in log scale produces duplicate tick labels.","articleBody":"### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\n\r\nSetting axis ticks in a small log scale produces duplicate tick labels.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A minimum code snippet required to reproduce the bug, also minimizing the number of dependencies required--\u003e\r\n\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\r\ns = 10\r\nax.axis([s, 100, 10, 100])\r\nax.loglog([20, 30], [30, 40])\r\nfrom matplotlib.ticker import ScalarFormatter\r\nfor axis in [ax.xaxis, ax.yaxis]:\r\n    axis.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter())\r\n\r\nax.set_xticks([20, 55])\r\nax.set_yticks([20, 55])\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n![figure_1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6657200/42314213-26c86c36-8077-11e8-853e-47a387d7d72a.png)\r\n\r\n\u003c!--The output produced by the above code, which may be a screenshot, console output, etc.--\u003e\r\n\r\n**change code a little bit**\r\n```python\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\r\ns = 9\r\nax.axis([s, 100, 10, 100])\r\nax.loglog([20, 30], [30, 40])\r\nfrom matplotlib.ticker import ScalarFormatter\r\nfor axis in [ax.xaxis, ax.yaxis]:\r\n    axis.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter())\r\nax.set_xticks([20, 55])\r\nax.set_yticks([20, 55])\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n![figure_2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6657200/42314434-91b84156-8077-11e8-8409-aac5a95962c4.png)\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A description of the expected outcome from the code snippet--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If this used to work in an earlier version of Matplotlib, please note the version it used to work on--\u003e\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system: Ubuntu 16.04\r\n  * Matplotlib version: 2.2.2\r\n  * Matplotlib backend: Qt5Agg\r\n  * Python version: 3.6\r\n\r\n\u003c!--Please tell us how you installed matplotlib and python e.g., from source, pip, conda--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If you installed from conda, please specify which channel you used if not the default--\u003e\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/szsdk","@type":"Person","name":"szsdk"},"datePublished":"2018-07-05T09:28:32.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/11575/matplotlib/issues/11575"}