[stylist] Writing question

[LoriStay at aol.com]

But who sets the rules?   The person who writes the   style sheet.   It's 
best in both cases to write the number out in letters.
Lori
In a message dated 11/11/08 6:39:33 PM, newmanrl at cox.net writes:


> 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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