# ARABIC

## Content

This function converts the specified Roman value to an Arabic value.

## Syntax

`ARABIC(text)`

## Arguments

[Required] For the argument, a string enclosed in quotation marks or a reference to the cell (posessing text value only) can be specified.

## Remarks

In this function, specifying the text in lower case or upper case doesn't matter because the case of the argument (supplied as a *text value)* is ignored.

## Examples

`ARABIC("XIXI")` gives the result 20
`ARABIC("LIV")` gives the result 54
`ARABIC(C2)` gives the result 61 where C2 is a cell reference containing the text value LXI.