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bug #62481: Cannot set exactly xlim / ylim at very small values

Submitter:  George Apostolopoulos <gapost>
Submitted:  Tue 17 May 2022 02:09:06 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Plotting Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Incorrect Result
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Thu 19 May 2022 09:41:51 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Re-opening while slightly shifting the scope:
The condition that is used to switch between using the limits given by the user and extending them automatically to allow a reasonable render could be improved.

Example for which it might still be reasonable to accept the limits passed by the user (but that doesn't happen currently):

A = 1e-9;
x=-1:0.1:1;
plot(x,A*x.^3)
ylim([-1 1]*A);


See also this discussion on discourse:
https://octave.discourse.group/t/issue-with-small-axis-limits/2696

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Group administrator
Tue 17 May 2022 02:47:56 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Closing as duplicate of bug #62241 down to trying to set very small axis limits. See that bug report for how to work with such small limits.

Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar>
Group Member
Tue 17 May 2022 02:09:06 PM UTC, original submission:  

Running the following commands:


clf
ylim([0 1e-20])
ylim


returns

ans =

            0   1.2100e-20

i.e. the upper limit is not set correctly. The y-axis in the corresponding figure window has the last tick at 1.2e-20 and goes up to 1.21e-20.

This occurs with both ylim and xlim when they are called with input [0 d], [-d 0] or [-d d], where 0 < d < 1e-8.

Same behavior with qt and gnuplot graphics toolkit.

Tested in Octave 6.4.0 and 7.1.0 under Ubuntu 20.04.




George Apostolopoulos <gapost>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2022-05-19 mmuetzel StatusDuplicate Confirmed
        Open/ClosedClosed Open
        Release6.4.0 dev
        Operating SystemGNU/Linux Any
    2022-05-17 arungiridhar StatusNone Duplicate
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

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