Using numbers in your nodes

(thing) by Rancid_Pickle (4.1 d) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Oct 18 2000 at 5:12:27

General english grammar rules for using numbers in your writeups:

If a number must be used at the beginning of a sentence, spell out the number.
Example:
4 score and 7 years ago...
Should be:
Four score and seven years ago...
Spell out numbers that are one or two words in length.
Examples:
There are 9 innings in a baseball game.
She placed her two hundred sixteen dollar bet on the 3-legged horse.
Should be:
There are nine innings in a baseball game.
She placed her $216 bet on the three-legged horse.
Use numerals when writing dates, times, addresses, decimals and fractions, percentages, exact amounts of money and statistics.
Example:
After she won two thousand thirty three dollars and twenty nine cents, she bet the entire amount on the Mets beating the Yankees five games to one on october twenty-ninth, two thousand at nine-thirty at night. Should be:
After she won $2033.29, she bet the entire amount on the Mets beating the Yankees 5-1 on October 29, 2000 at 9p.m.
In all reality, this sentence should be broken up into several different sentences, but I included it to show how numbers can be confusing when they are not done using standard rules of grammar.

9th inning	October 29, 2000	714	1st Chair
Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice	arse	Platonic	Zero-One-Infinity Rule

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