# Round() can anybody explain this behavior to me?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/round-can-anybody-explain-this-behavior-to-me/29230>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, bug\
**Created:** [September 27, 2019, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/round-can-anybody-explain-this-behavior-to-me/29230 "2019-09-27T12:39:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![KajWiik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kajwiik/32/199_2.png) [@KajWiik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/KajWiik)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 8:53pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/round-can-anybody-explain-this-behavior-to-me/29230/17 "2019-09-30T20:53:30Z")

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```julia
julia> round(1e23;sigdigits=1)
1.0e23

julia> round(1e23;sigdigits=2)
1.0e23

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.1.0
Commit 80516ca202 (2019-01-21 21:24 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2860QM CPU @ 2.50GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.1 (ORCJIT, sandybridge)

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