Prevent scientific form plot ticks

Question

How can I most cleanly force Mathematica not to print ticks in scientific notation? Do I have to manually provide the tick labels?

Rendering the numbers in exact form would be sufficient. If there is a way to express formatting with a function that would be optimal.

Plot[x, {x, 0, 10^10}]

What would you like the tick labels to look like, then? – J. M.'s missing motivation Aug 26 '17 at 02:03 — J. M.'s missing motivation, Aug 26 '17 at 02:03
Good question -- let me add more detail. Thanks. – mfvonh Aug 26 '17 at 02:04 — mfvonh, Aug 26 '17 at 02:04

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 26 '17 at 02:16

Use the Table function or something similar within the Ticks option to make this easy on you. Consider this, which changes the y-axis ticks, while leaving the x-axis ticks alone:

Plot[x, {x, 0, 10^10}, 
 Ticks -> {Automatic, Table[{2 i 10^9, 2 i 10^9}, {i, 1, 5}]}]

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 26 '17 at 08:19

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longticks = 
  Show[#, AbsoluteOptions[#, 
      Ticks] /. {n_?NumberQ, n_, a_List, b_List} :> {n, AccountingForm[n], a, b}] &;

Plot[x, {x, 0, 10^10}] // longticks

Prevent scientific form plot ticks

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