When I am plotting contour plot along with colorbar automatically the scale of the z variable and colorbar becomes like 0.23(any value) x 10^4.Why?

How can I stop the scale of the z variable and colorbar from becoming something like 0.23(any value) x 10^4. Why is this happening and how do I stop it? I have tried Clim and caxis without any success!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

The only known way to stop it is to set your own axis labels. For example,

zticks = get(gca, 'ztick');
set(gca, 'zticklabel', cellstr(num2str(zticks(:))))