%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 3-3-30 on page I-173 in "Customizing numerical data representation".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{siunitx}
\newcommand\sample[1]{#1:
  \num{18.276(1)}\hfill \num{18.276}\hfill
  \num{124.5}\hfill \num{1.245e2}\\[8pt]}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
                             \sample{A}
\sisetup{round-mode=places}  \sample{B}
\sisetup{round-precision=1}  \sample{C}
\sisetup{round-precision=3}  \sample{D}
\sisetup{round-mode=figures} \sample{E}
\sisetup{round-half=even}    \sample{F}
\end{document}