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

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The currency value of the SDR is determined by summing the values in U.S. dollars, based on market exchange rates, of a basket of major currencies (the U.S. dollar, Euro, Japanese yen, pound sterling ...