Scales now generate ticks in the same order as the domain: if you have a descending domain, you now get descending ticks. This changes applies to time scales as well, and affects the order of tick elements generated by [axes](#axes-d3-axis). For example:
Scales now generate ticks in the same order as the domain: if you have a descending domain, you now get descending ticks. This change affects the order of tick elements generated by [axes](#axes-d3-axis). For example:
Non-linear quantitative scales are slightly more accurate. [Log tick formatting](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#log_tickFormat) now assumes a default *count* of ten, not Infinity, if not specified. Log scales with domains that span many powers (such as from 1e+3 to 1e+29) now return only one [tick](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#log_ticks) per power rather than returning *base* ticks per power.
[Log tick formatting](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#log_tickFormat) now assumes a default *count* of ten, not Infinity, if not specified. Log scales with domains that span many powers (such as from 1e+3 to 1e+29) now return only one [tick](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#log_ticks) per power rather than returning *base* ticks per power. Non-linear quantitative scales are slightly more accurate.
You can now control whether an ordinal scale’s domain is implicitly extended when the ordinal scale is passed a value that is not in its domain. By default, [*ordinal*.unknown](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#ordinal_unknown) is [d3.scaleImplicit](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#scaleImplicit), and unknown values will be added to the domain:
You can now control whether an ordinal scale’s domain is implicitly extended when the scale is passed a value that is not already in its domain. By default, [*ordinal*.unknown](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#ordinal_unknown) is [d3.scaleImplicit](https://github.com/d3/d3-scale#scaleImplicit), causing unknown values to be added to the domain: