[stylist] Writing question

[Barbara Hammel]

I think that's what I learned also.
Barbara

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From: "Angela fowler" <fowlers at syix.com>
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> 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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