text (...) function behaviour for large numbers? Bug?

[David Bateman]

Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> Dear all
>
> I tried to use the text(...) command for text labels in a plot with 
> large numbers. For y coordinates larger than 2E9, the text is not placed 
> correctly. Try this to see what I mean:
>
> --------------
> plot(rand(1,10)*1e10)
> axis ([1 10 1e8 1e10]);
> text(2,1e9,'1E9')
> text(3,2e9,'2E9')
> text(4,3e9,'3E9')
> text(5,4e9,'4E9')
> text(6,5e9,'5E9')
> --------------
>
> Matthias
>
>
>   
Previous related thread is

http://www.nabble.com/plotting-hickups-tf4472722.html#a12764780

D.

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