# No strict ticks found message
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217
**Category:** Visualization
**Tags:** plots
**Created:** [August 19, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217 "2020-08-19T15:48:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@HelgavonLichtenstein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HelgavonLichtenstein)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 3:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/1 "2020-08-19T15:48:52Z")
I was plotting and realised a message was popping up in the REPL. I am using Julia 1.5 in Atom and `StatsPlots.jl` and `Plot.jl`. Any idea what is causing it?
```julia
Warning: No strict ticks found
└ @ PlotUtils C:\Users\Helga\.julia\packages\PlotUtils\nCtbM\src\ticks.jl:283
```
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### Author:  [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/2 "2020-08-19T16:00:00Z")
Could be a float precision thing? what are the numbers like?
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### Author:  [@AndiMD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AndiMD)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/3 "2020-08-19T16:02:21Z")
Precision or large numbers are definitely an issue, at least for the GR backend.
works:
`plot([1,2,3],[1,1,1]*1E8)`
fails:
`plot([1,2,3],[1,1,1]*1E16)`
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### Author:  [@HelgavonLichtenstein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HelgavonLichtenstein)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/4 "2020-08-19T16:13:26Z")
The numbers don’t seem too strange but there are a lot of decimal places. I don’t need that much accuracy though.
`0.695873142253793`
Is it possible it comes about from plotting too much? The previous plot came out fine
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### Author:  [@devel-chm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/devel-chm)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2020, 6:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/5 "2020-08-19T18:05:39Z")
Is it possible there is a “strict” that is in the code that should be “struct”?
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### Author:  [@HelgavonLichtenstein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/HelgavonLichtenstein)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 8:39am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/6 "2020-08-20T08:39:59Z")
The message appears when there is `:log10` in the code
```julia
scatter(df_high_ranges_final_1[!, :clearance],diag(Matrix(df_high_ranges_final_1[:, (33):(42)])),xaxis = :log10,yaxis = :log10, xlabel = "Vessel Coverage(1*m-2)", ylabel = "Final Target Biomass (g*m-2)", label = "fw1", leg = :outerright)
```
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### Author:  [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2020, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/7 "2020-08-20T09:51:29Z")
Does your data have 0’s?
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### Author:  [@hemraj4545](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/hemraj4545)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2020, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/8 "2020-11-13T16:37:20Z")
Yes, I have some 0’s in my vector…
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### Author:  [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2022, 3:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/9 "2022-01-08T03:00:17Z")
Well, I’m getting the same warning and my data definitely doesn’t have zeros since I manually shift all zeros to 1e-16. Anything else that could cause this?
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/10 "2022-01-08T15:55:42Z")
> [@cortner](#):
>
> Anything else that could cause this?
Using older versions of Plots.jl.
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### Author:  [@cortner](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cortner)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/11 "2022-01-08T16:15:12Z")
I’m not sure. I have Plots 1.23, which is not the latest but my registry won’t update to 1.25. As simple an example as this reproduces my problem:
```julia
x = range(1, 2*pi, length=100)
P = plot(x, 1.00001 .+ cos.(x), yaxis = :log10, xaxis = :log10)
```
```julia
┌ Warning: No strict ticks found
└ @ PlotUtils /Users/ortner/.julia/packages/PlotUtils/VgXdq/src/ticks.jl:294
```
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/12 "2022-01-08T16:16:35Z")
Plots fine here `using Plots; gr()`
_(Plots v1.25.0)_
[Activate a temp enviroment](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/upgrading-version-of-dataframes-stuck-at-0-21-8/61914/5) and test it.
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### Author:  [@chunjiw](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/chunjiw)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 7:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/13 "2024-01-18T19:57:03Z")
I get the warning with `axis=:log10`; I do not get the warning with `xaxis=:log10, yaxis=:log10`. I thought these two should be equivalent, no?
Same goes for `scale`, `xscale` and `yscale`.
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### Author:  [@rafael.guerra](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rafael.guerra)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/no-strict-ticks-found-message/45217/14 "2024-01-19T10:58:23Z")
I think they should be equivalent. Note that the warning only seems to concern the gr() backend. Others, such as plotly() or pythonplot(), don’t complain.