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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In typesetting, numbers ten and under are always spelled out, and also numbers at the start of a sentence of any size. Numbers one, through ninety-nine are hyphenated if spelled out, ninety-nine percent of typesetters agree. Also, the “and” is frowned upon. It should be “three hundred and twenty-seven”, if quoting, if that is what was said, but three hundred twenty-seven otherwise.

  However, numerals in text is fine, outside of the limitations above, and there are lowercase numerals in many classic typefaces that are less jarring to the eye in body type than the uppercase numerals.

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  • Eddyzh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In a legal setting even those long numbers are still spelled out in contracts in many jurisdictions.

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    • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ludicrous!

      Although they did get spelled out on checks on the whole days as a anti-fraud counter measure.

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      • nocturne@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They still get spelled out on checks today.

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      • gustofwind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s important to spell out numbers in addition to writing them when it comes to important documents and such

        It helps you verify the numbers are accurate

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      • AmidFuror@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In the old days? I still do it. Just not that often.

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  • dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not hard rules, though. There’s a myriad of publishing styles. Each define different rules and guidelines to when and where numbers are spelled out. Hyphen was dropped from several guides, for example. The and has also been optional for certain publishing houses for a while. Academic and literary will differ in how they enforce this guides and exactly what they are. Language is relative, changing and fluid, and this was all different mere 30 years ago. It moves with the expectations of the audience.

    Also, it is six seven. Respect the memes guidelines.

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  • palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    but three hundred twenty-seven otherwise

    Depends on the dialect. That "and" is a requirement in British English.

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The “and” is necessary in British English at least (saying that the US constitution uses it)

    (In older forms it would be three hundred and seven and twenty)

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The meme isn’t sixty seven, pops.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      … You apparently haven’t been around the kids who push this annoying meme? They absolutely would count “sixty seven” as “six seven” without a split second of thought.

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  • bryndos@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because seven ate nine.

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• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought that was only for single digit numbers. Or is that a more recent convention?

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t know how universal it was, but in old documents it’s common to see dates written out fully in the form of “on the thirty-first day of January in the year of our lord two thousand and twenty-six”

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