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The default minor locator is `NullLocator`, i.e., no minor ticks on by default.

.. note::
`Locator` instances should not be used with more than one
`~matplotlib.axis.Axis` or `~matplotlib.axes.Axes`. So instead of::

locator = MultipleLocator(5)
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(locator)
ax2.xaxis.set_major_locator(locator)

do the following instead::

ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(5))
ax2.xaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(5))

Tick formatting
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