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That's simply good writing practice. I find it more taxing to read digits than prose.
by happyraul 1y ago
That's simply good writing practice. I find it more taxing to read digits than prose.
- sojournerc 1y agoI was taught numbers up to ten should be spelled, the rest use digits
- mrspuratic 1y agoChicago Manual of Style (though it says 1 to 100, er, I mean one to one-hundred). I try to use a CMOS subset for my professional/technical writing, mostly for consistency, but, partly so that I don't need to argue with people with subjective opinions about how I'm writing it wrong.
- otikik 1y agoThank you. To me after reading the parent comment the numbers option was so evidently better that I didn't even consider that someone like you could exist. My conception of humanity has been slightly enlarged. If I may ask: Do you also find numbers more difficult to parse when doing math pure math operations? Is this: Two hundred thirty five plus one thousand eight hundred twenty two Also easier for you to parse than this? 235 + 1822 Or do you have two "parsing modes" ("text" and "math"), and going from one to the other is the difficult part?