Exponential notation in tick labels?

[Matthias Brennwald]

Dear all

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I couldn't find anything  
(maybe I did not chose the right search terms). I'd like to use  
exponential notation for tick-mark labels in plots. For instance "plot  
([0:1e4:1E6])" yields a plot with y-axis labels 0, 200000, 400000,  
600000, 700000, 1e+6. I'd like these to be 0, 2e5, 4e5, 6e5, 8e5, 1e6.  
Or, even better, 0, 2x10^5, 4x10^5,..., 10^6. How can I achieve this?

Matthias

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