title: Gnuplot how to lower the number of tics in x axis
body: <p>The figure has too many xtics and ytics. Can I have half of them?</p>
  
  <p>I know I can manually set tics in a way similar to this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>set xtics (1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I feel it is not a general solution. You can not manually set tics for all figures. I have loads of them and the gnuplot code is automatically generated using Java.</p>
  
  <p>Here is the code for the figure: <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45318932/gnuplot2.plt" rel="noreferrer">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45318932/gnuplot2.plt</a></p>
  
  <p>Can you help lower down the number of x and y tics?</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/cJvRi.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>