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in thread How to determine whether a number has a decimal component?

There are algorithms out there to find "nice" scales for graphs; I'd suggest one of them. You can find one routine to do so here. It's from the Griffiths and Hill archive at Carnegie-Mellon's StatLib site. More may be found here or at CGAL.

Another is from the Graphics Gems web site.

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