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PurushReddy
Fluorite | Level 6
Data num;
A=round (1234.56789,1111);
Run;

Output is:1111
Please give me clarification How it comes 1111
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Kurt_Bremser
Super User

When you use 1111 as the second argument, multiples of 1111 are used as values to be rounded to.

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).

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