Automatic plot tick labels improperly scaled

[John W. Eaton]

On  1-Apr-2008, Boronkay, Allen R. wrote:

| I'm using Octave 3.0.0 and having a problem with tick labels on plots
| which can be shown with the following code:
| 
|  
| 
| a = [0:100];
| 
| b = 1e-9*a.^2;
| 
| Plot(a,b)
| 
|  
| 
| The y-axis labels all show "0.0" which is decidedly unhelpful.

With the current sources and the upcoming 3.0.1 release, the y axis
labels are

  0, 2e-06, 4e-06, 6e-06, 8e-06, 1e-05

jwe