Strings and Values Typically, when assigning a value to a word, the easiest (and most limiting) technique to to take the ASCII value of each letter in a word and calculate all of them together.

In his letter to the editor, Roy Schimelpfenig uses the word "God," and I'm not sure what he means ("Who is running socialist nightmare?," Our Readers' Views, March 16).

Responding to PM Modi's greetings for Eid-ul-Adha, Yunus wrote the letter, dated June 6, and conveyed his wishes on the occasion.