# Strange behavior y label in PGFplots

I've noted a strange behavior of PGFplots y label with the following code:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{pgfplots}

\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
compat = 1.3,
no markers,
grid   = major,
ylabel = $P_2$,
xlabel = h,
xmin   = 0,
xmax   = 60000,
% TRY HERE
% case 1
ymin   = 0,
% case 2
%ymin   = 0.00000001,
]
1.0000000e+003  2.7793697e-004
5.5000000e+004  6.3359750e-007
};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}


Compile with case 1 not commented and with case 2 commented and after viceversa to see the difference.

Can somebody tell me why?

Is it a bug?

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I don't see any difference. Perhaps your pgfplots is outdated? –  romeovs Feb 1 '11 at 22:58
@romeovs. With the packages currently in TL2010 there is a difference (at least on my system). See the image above. –  Caramdir Feb 1 '11 at 23:28
I have the same problem. I can reproduce the 2 cases above. scaled y ticks=false/true does not have any effect on the way the axis is shown when ymin = 0. It only works for ymin = .0000001. –  user7510 Aug 29 '11 at 11:50
@Matt: Welcome to TeX.sx! Your question won't be seen by many people here so it would be best to repost it as a fresh question. Follow-up questions like this are more than welcome! Please use the "Ask Question" link for your new question; there you can link to this question to provide the background. –  lockstep Aug 29 '11 at 11:59

It is a bit hard to predict when the tick numbers are formatted with a common scaling factor (as on the x axis in both cases, and the y axis only in the second case), and when they are formatted in normal scientific notation (y axis in the first case), but you can control the behaviour with the axis option scaled y ticks=false (or true, depending on what you prefer).