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# Tick and lot size

Both `'price'` and `'amount'` fields in order related API operations are subject to rounding, needing to be multiples tick and lot size.\
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Generally `tick_size` is determined by the rightmost decimal place of a symbol's current price, and prices generally have five significant figures, with the exception of assets with more than six integer places, where sig.figs = #of integer places.\
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For example:\
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If `'price' = 123.45`, expect `'tick_size' = 0.01`\
If `'price' = 123456`, expect `'tick_size' = 1`\
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Generally, `lot_size*tick_size = 0.0001 or 0.00001`, based on the market.\
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For the exact implemented `tick_size` and `lot_size` of each market, call the [market info](/docs/api-documentation/api/rest-api/markets/get-market-info.md) endpoint to verify.

## Rounding

Pacifica accepts requests containing `'price'` and `'amount'` fields only when they are multiples of `tick_size` and `lot_size` respectively. Any requests with incorrectly rounded `'price'` and `'amount'` fields will return `'"Internal server error","code":500'`

For example:\
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BTC has `"tick_size": "1"`, `"lot_size": "0.00001"`\
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A request where `"amount": "0.000005"` will return `Status 500: Internal server error`\
A request where `"price": "100_000.5"` will return `Status 500: Internal server error`

A request where `"amount": "0.00002"` will be accepted\
A request where `"price": "100_001"` will be accepted