Ticks with a single common exponent at the side

I would like to combine a single common exponent such as as seen in Plot 1

with a ticks based numerical order as seen in Plot 2

Here, a to n are arbitrary numbers.

I have tried

ax=gca;
ax.XAxis.Exponent=-2;

with Plot 2, but as it did not work I was wondering if there is any other command I can use when using ticks?

Answer 1

[Ayush]

Hi Filip,

I understand that you want to mark all the elements in your plot on the x-axis.

To do so, you can use the “xticks” function which will mark all the elements in your plot on x-axis.

You can refer to the below code for better understanding:

% Generate the data points
x = (1:14)*10^-2; % X-axis values
y = ones(1,14); % Y-axis values  
% Plot the data  
figure  
plot(x, y, 'o-')  
% % Set ticks for every element on the x-axis  
xticks(x)
xlim([0 15*10^-2])
ax=gca;
ax.XAxis.Exponent=-2;
yticks([0 0.5 1 1.5 2])

% Add labels and title  

xlabel('X-axis')  
ylabel('Y-axis')  
title('Plot with Ticks for Every Element on X-axis')

For more information on the “xticks” function and its usage, please refer to the following documentation link: 

https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2020a/matlab/ref/xticks.html

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Ayush.