[stylist] Writing question

[Donna Hill]

Robert,
Not sure if there's a rule, but I don't think it's ever wrong to spell 
out the number in the body of a piece.
Donna

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Robert Newman wrote:
> 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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