title: Turn off scientific notation and offset globally
body: <p>I have been trying for several hours to globally turn off scientific notation and the offset in matplotlib. my attempt at a solution</p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib  as mpl
  import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The documentation says:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>set the rcParam axes.formatter.useoffset=False to turn it off globally, or set a different formatter.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>mpl.rcParams.formatter.useoffset = False 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Of course this fails because there is no formatter for rcParam</p>
  
  <pre><code>mpl.ticker.FuncFormatter.__setattr__('set_scientific',False)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am completely lost trying to do this. I have just switched from matlab. So I apologize if this is very basic</p>