Excel's VALUE function has only one argument: where a is the value stored as text that you want to convert into a number.

If you define a numeric variable and assign the result of a character expression to it, SAS tries to convert the character result of the expression to a numeric value and to execute the statement. If ...

If you use a character variable with an operator that requires numeric operands, such as the plus sign, SAS converts the character variable to numeric. If you use a comparison operator, such as the ...

Ivan Panin, a Greek, Hebrew and math scholar from Harvard, knew that Hebrew and Greek letters have numeric values. He studied the numeric value of words, phrases and sentences referring to certain ...