RE: Web Writing: Numbers - spell out or not?

Subject: RE: Web Writing: Numbers - spell out or not?
From: bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:05:16 -0500

Find out there reason for wanting the numeral instead of the word. If they
have a valid need for the numeral, offer to use it INSTEAD of the word. If
they can not give you a good reason, then they will have won your argument
for you.


--- Bob Morrisette <Robert -dot- Morrisette -at- Sun -dot- COM> wrote:
> I have engineers who insist I write numbers like four (4).
> To me this clutters the page and is harder to read.
>
> How can I convince people that four is sufficient?


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