ENH:made default tick formatter to switch to scientific notation earlier

sameshl · sameshl · commit 75437b23a0fe · 2019-07-17T23:06:25.000+05:30
Add note in api section and changed new defaults in matplotlibrc
diff --git a/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_3.1.0.rst b/doc/api/prev_api_changes/api_changes_3.1.0.rst
@@ -1157,3 +1157,8 @@ result in undefined behavior.  It now throws a `ValueError`.
 
 The signature of the (private) ``Axis._update_ticks`` has been changed to not
 take the renderer as argument anymore (that argument is unused).
+
+Reduced default value of `axes.formatter.limits`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Changed the default value of `axes.formatter.limits` from -7, 7 to -5, 5
