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explabel.pro Source code in explabel.pro

explabel.pro

NAME: explabel PURPOSE: force IDL to plot labels in exponential form CATEGORY: plotting tools CALLING SEQUENCE: plot,....,xtickformat='explabel'
Input Parameters
         axis, index, value: see documentation of axis procedure for
         the meaning of these parameters
Optional Input Parameters
         none
Keyword Parameters
         none
Output Parameters
         the function returns an exponentially formatted string of the
         form '10^x' or '1x10^Y'
Optional Output
         none
Common Blocks
         ...are evil :-)
Side Effects
         none
Restrictions
         explabel should not be used for axes spanning less than a few
         decades because the exponential numbers returned have only one
         significant digit of precision
Procedure
         trivial
Example

Revision History
     written sometime back in 1993 or 1994 by Joern Wilms
     $Log: explabel.pro,v $
     Revision 1.3  2003/06/19 09:50:52  wilms
     improved roundoff check
     Revision 1.2  2002/07/26 07:40:50  wilms
     better check whether mantissa is different from unity (now avoids roundoff)

Last modified by pro2html on 2005 January 04 at 16:38 UTC

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