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I am working with mathematica 9.0 and I want to make a plot importing data from a .dat file. My issue is that I don't know how to show y axis in scientific notation. My values run from 0 to approx 4000 in the y axis. Can anybody help me? thank you

user25578
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  • Possible duplicate of http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/5369/about-the-number-format-in-ticks – eldo Sep 22 '14 at 11:37

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fakedata = Transpose[{Range[500], RandomReal[4000, {500}]}];
ListLinePlot[fakedata, 
 Ticks -> {Automatic, {#, ScientificForm@#} & /@  Range[0., 4000., 1000.]}, 
 PlotRange -> {0, 4500}]

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kglr
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  • that doesn't work. Basically I have a .dat of 500 points and when I listlineplot it the y axis runs from 0 to 4000, and the only thing I want is to show 4x10^3 instead of 4000 – user25578 Sep 22 '14 at 11:48
  • @user25578, please see the updated answer... – kglr Sep 22 '14 at 12:02
  • Thank you, now the ticks are how I wanted, but now I am not able to write the axes labels – user25578 Sep 22 '14 at 14:11
  • user25578, did you try something like AxesLabel -> {"axis x", "axis y"}? – kglr Sep 22 '14 at 14:17
  • Yes, now I've tried AxesLabel and it works. I was using FrameLabel. It's not possible to write frame labels in scientific notation? Thank you for your help – user25578 Sep 22 '14 at 14:19
  • user25578, my pleasure. Welcome to mma.se. – kglr Sep 22 '14 at 14:22
  • When Frame is true, it does not work.

    Then, one needs to use FrameTicks, instead of Ticks.

     – PoreyS Sep 08 '22 at 00:26