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@anntzer anntzer commented Nov 22, 2018

These are just algebraic manipulations:

In classic mode, we want the smallest stride so that

numdec/stride+1 <= numticks

i.e.

stride >= numdec/(numticks-1)

so stride is the ceil() of the RHS (and at least 1, to handle the case
vmin==vmax).

In nonclassic mode, we want the smallest stride so that

numdec//stride+1 <= numticks, i.e. numdec//stride < numticks

(everything is integer), i.e.

numdec < numticks*stride- 1

i.e.

stride > (numdec+1)/numticks

so stride is 1 + the floor() of the LHS.

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These are just algebraic manipulations:

In classic mode, we want the smallest stride so that

    numdec/stride+1 <= numticks

i.e.

    stride >= numdec/(numticks-1)

so stride is the ceil() of the RHS (and at least 1, to handle the case
vmin==vmax).

In nonclassic mode, we want the smallest stride so that

    numdec//stride+1 <= numticks, i.e. numdec//stride < numticks

(everything is integer), i.e.

    numdec < numticks*stride- 1

i.e.

    stride > (numdec+1)/numticks

so stride is 1 + the floor() of the LHS.
@jklymak jklymak merged commit d4b42b6 into matplotlib:master Nov 23, 2018
@anntzer anntzer deleted the logstride branch November 23, 2018 21:11
@QuLogic QuLogic added this to the v3.1 milestone Nov 24, 2018
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