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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Minor offsetText formatting improvement","articleBody":"Currently, the axis offset text is always typeset with the format string \"%1.10e\" followed by some crazy postprocessing in `ScalarFormatter._formatSciNotation`.  I would suggest switching to some \"%g\"-based format, so that e.g. 1234 doesn't get formatted as \"1.234e3\" which can hardly be described as \"more legible\".  Probably `_formatSciNotation` could be simplified a bit too.\r\n\r\nSimple example:\r\n\r\n```\r\npython -c 'from pylab import *; plot(*[1234 + arange(10)] * 2); show()'\r\n```\r\nEdit: the above is now fixed by the switch of axes.formatter.offset_threshold to 4, but the issue remains with\r\n```\r\npython -c 'from pylab import *; plot(*[12.321 + arange(5) * .001] * 2); show()'\r\n```\r\n![test](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1322974/60463976-a4095280-9c4d-11e9-86aa-c99ede2e32b6.png)\r\nwhere the offset text should be \"12.320\" (or at least \"12.32\"), not \"1.232e1\".\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anntzer","@type":"Person","name":"anntzer"},"datePublished":"2015-05-21T09:32:16.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/4451/matplotlib/issues/4451"}