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Subject: Re: Format with power of 10
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:29:27 +0200
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On 25.05.2011 19:37, greenux wrote:

> If the tics are (100,1000,2000,5000) I want to label them (0,1 1,0 2,0
> 5,0) and a label "x 10^3" at the end of the axis (which I already have
> by the command set label "10^3" ...). I tried formats with %L and %l
> and %s and %S but non of them has the right meaning. "n" is known
> before, so it can be used for any calculation.

So just divide all your data by 10**n, and use plain "% f" format.