[stylist] Writing question

[Angela fowler]

I always thought that unless you were doing math or technical kind of stuff
it is best to write out the number, but I too could be wrong. 

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I could be wrong, but I would write the house as being 100 years old, using
the numerals.  She carried two little dogs... writing out the number. 
Judith
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> When in a narrative of a story and you are needing to speak of a 
> number, under what circumstances do you use an actual numeral/number 
> verses writing out the word? For example- the house is 100 years old. 
> Or- She carried the two little dogs up to the seventeenth floor.
>
> Are there rules? Or is it just style?
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