https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Round-function/m-p/639659#M190334 Data num;<BR />A=round (1234.56789,1111);<BR />Run;<BR /><BR />Output is:1111<BR />Please give me clarification How it comes 1111 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:01:55 GMT PurushReddy 2020-04-14T08:01:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Round-function/m-p/639659#M190334 Data num;<BR />A=round (1234.56789,1111);<BR />Run;<BR /><BR />Output is:1111<BR />Please give me clarification How it comes 1111 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 08:01:55 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Round-function/m-p/639659#M190334 PurushReddy 2020-04-14T08:01:55Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Round-function/m-p/639671#M190344 <P>When you use 1111 as the second argument, multiples of 1111 are used as values to be rounded to.</P> <P>Since 1234 is between 1111 (= 1111 * 1) and 2222 (= 1111 * 2), we need to look to which of those two numbers 1234 is closer, and that is 1111 (abs(1234 - 1111) = 123, while abs(1234 - 2222) = 988).</P> Tue, 14 Apr 2020 09:28:05 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/Round-function/m-p/639671#M190344 Kurt_Bremser 2020-04-14T09:28:05Z