[stylist] Writing question

[David Andrews]

In journalism we were taught to spell out for single digits -- zero 
through 9 and to use numbers for 10 and above.

Dave

At 02:57 PM 11/11/2008, you 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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