the corresponding text strings. There are several reasons for this; for example, cell references are much more compact, functions are specified by an ID number instead of a string, and white space is removed. When translated into a token string, it is only three bytes long: one token byte to specify that this is a number, and two data bytes to store the value of the number. For this reason, applications which use the parse library will generally not store the text entered by the user; instead, they can stor