# Offset in scientific notation

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offset-in-scientific-notation/11613>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Created:** [June 12, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offset-in-scientific-notation/11613 "2018-06-12T15:59:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/offset-in-scientific-notation/11613/1 "2018-06-12T15:59:58Z")

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Is there a way to specify an offset in the scientific notation of ticks in a plot using Plots and pyplot()? In matplotlib one can do it by giving the useoffset argument in the [ticklabel formatting](https://matplotlib.org/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.ticklabel_format.html)

This is quite useful when having data values that are very small or very large, as the exponent (which is often hardly readable) is extracted from the values and shown separately on the axis.