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/* If tick == 0, this works out a "nice" interval, so that there */
/* are between 3 and 7.5 major tick intervals in the input range */
/* "vmin" to "vmax". Using this value for the tick interval or */
/* supplied value, it also computes "prec" which specifies */
/* the number of places that should be written after the decimal */
/* point. The recommended number of subticks is returned in */
/* "nsubt" unless the routine is entered with a non-zero value */
/* of "nsubt". The output variable "mode" is set to 0 if */
/* labels are to be written in floating-point format, or to 1 if */
/* they are to be written in fixed-point format. */
/* THIS CODE WAS ADAPTED FROM PLPLOT.LIB */
#include <math.h>
#include <exec/types.h>
void tik(double vmin, double vmax, double *tick, WORD *nsubt, BOOL *mode, WORD *prec)
{
double t1, t2, vmod;
LONG msd, np, ns;
t1 = fabs(vmin);
t2 = fabs(vmax);
vmod = max(t1,t2);
*mode = 0;
if (vmod <= 1e-2 || vmod >= 1e3) *mode = 1;
t1 = (double)log10(vmod);
msd = (LONG)t1;
t1 = (double)log10(fabs(vmax-vmin));
np = (LONG)t1;
t1 -= np;
if (t1 > 0.7781512503)
{
t2 = 2.0 ;
ns = 4;
}
else if (t1 > 0.4771212549)
{
t2 = 1.0 ;
ns = 5;
}
else if (t1 > 0.1760912591)
{
t2 = 5.0;
ns = 5;
np--;
}
else
{
t2 = 1.0;
ns = 4;
np--;
}
*tick = t2 * pow(10.0,(double)np);
if (vmin > vmax) *tick = -*tick;
if (*nsubt == 0) *nsubt = ns;
if (*mode != 0)
*prec = msd - np;
else
*prec = max(-np,0);
}