When more than one lexeme can match a pattern, the lexical analyzer must provide the subsequent compiler phases additional information about the particular lexeme that matched. For example, the pattern for token number matches both 0 and 1, but it is extremely important for the code generator to know which lexeme was found in the source program. Thus, in many cases, the lexical analyzer returns to the parser not only a token name, but an attribute value that describes the lexeme represented by the token; the token name influences parsing decisions, while the attribute value influences translation of tokens after the parse.

From what I understand the symbol table stores the variable name and the some details like the type, scope etc. So if a character 0 is found by the lexical analyzer, it matches the pattern for a number so it uses the token name number so the token becomes .,>

As per the snippet I have cited above, I don't understand what data is stored in the symbol table for numbers. Is the value of the number stored in the symbol table?