title: Why doesn't adjusting scilimits in matplotlib work properly?
body: <p>I am trying to make a plot with the same <code>scilimits</code> using the following code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from matplotlib import rc
  rc('text', usetex=True)
  plt.rcParams['text.latex.preamble']=[r"\usepackage{amsmath}"]
  plt.figure(figsize=(8, 8))
  aaaa = [64673.753739998487, 47600.685099333175, 103536.00001368104, 72449.921543225209, 
       61508.505984112242, 70263.491595277388, 54348.281891183826, 49961.598403993477, 
       33835.286137921314, 34182.104988390645, 35539.090978564935, 69718.606491298371, 
       64032.096678612936, 52855.807603271372, 70679.662115378873, 91608.723258364189, 
       91600.042916546503, 82024.037261705904, 63732.304870187407, 47904.610195267909, 
       46001.244148731595, 24976.947952480623, 24592.553349545487, 27348.600652481313, 
       81136.751837311749, 49655.597812696637, 58389.606840344379, 52350.219450883087, 
       17098.39071276773, 36878.709818584044, 50013.871736403096, 35444.332307350232, 
       52980.143877805109, 47794.752894901736, 53415.497902966708, 87468.158494885298, 
       43987.111394756357, 52740.394838572705, 39854.41297787604, 14290.064757144555, 
       59774.501794076656, 74379.013185690623, 60637.406496348274, 27642.107019667237, 
       56442.905348738204, 12118.615765071288, 82440.158580033807, 25663.625231811915, 
       10678.714405095518, 4956.9098748649003, 29124.723882758833, 18746.727949554137, 
       7895.9466736771647, 23494.076724132057, 41322.088510975504, 40117.955865577132, 
       23621.902085664922, 50504.580577880901, 34827.296362983485, 9667.8131544045937, 
       29516.370019205577, 4958.6179626158646, 22072.187168100805, 10332.974318750123, 
       4750.2433278318049, 12963.348939660838]
  bbbb = [1463060.7664889875, 1490667.9353886067, 2731854.306528457, 1426342.0116374588, 
    2083867.3081647172, 1995195.1159607177, 605631.4319293281, 1002276.8715411476, 
    689368.0650139145, 529666.5221268163, 543505.9613533892, 319234.8941877205, 
    1359750.9594256533, 773179.6592194682, 690644.7062404836, 892392.4537823396, 
    2153525.80346547, 1063883.5510123423, 971368.4472613719, 1175545.4059684786, 
    422568.1756412806, 497291.5363220389, 354329.0495590891, 481157.7096561746, 
    509541.2954844916, 636751.2599259235, 559092.7235128282, 383569.55369432206, 
    213130.5859858809, 116223.0655109612, 744259.9557510511, 354787.2969271489, 
    1044499.4434171829, 286877.1179750149, 166630.02501717687, 402163.62581247673, 
    302989.7801416834, 237494.47912775108, 367482.5393384159, 168331.76670558963, 
    423096.4255360829, 1214630.3577723764, 169831.30063169816, 213402.10004502145, 
    346942.76407560415, 255456.10035719394, 628616.4650582516, 164595.69059363392, 
    154831.84459743137, 72780.84627038662, 210376.77469373296, 116647.33026847115, 
    129570.58089614184, 282714.18605033203, 65219.39402292857, 307928.71853371797, 
    181462.35490009392, 225568.15926706092, 124674.92646231048, 173866.74045265373, 
    204237.15282636438, 58584.83339857978, 129355.98656862657, 55535.14076293081, 
    23301.53441103586, 38277.76101210561]
  
  
  
  plt.plot(bbbb, aaaa, 'k*', label="$A$", markerfacecolor='none', markersize = 8)
  
  plt.ticklabel_format(style='sci', axis='x', scilimits=(5,5), useMathText=True)
  plt.ticklabel_format(style='sci', axis='y', scilimits=(5,5), useMathText=True)
  plt.xticks(fontsize=14)
  plt.yticks(fontsize=14)
  plt.rc('font', size=14)
  plt.xlabel(r'$\text{whateveronxaxis}$', fontsize=16, fontname='Times New Roman')
  plt.grid()
  plt.ylabel(r'$\text{whateveronyaxis}$', fontsize=16, fontname='Times New Roman')
  leg = plt.legend(loc='best',
        fancybox=True, shadow=False, ncol=1, numpoints = 1, fontsize=16)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I was expecting that <code>axis='x', scilimits=(5,5)</code> would help my x-axis to be <code>10**5</code>, however, it yields <code>10**6</code>.Can you please help me to figure out where I am doing wrong?</p>
  
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