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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by ZeroGravitas on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:43AM (#44518388)
I believe this is a New Yorker magazine house style thing. I'd assume the author uses numerals in the book this article is based on.
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by HPsquared on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:01AM (#44518505)
If there are two options, you can trust they'll go for the more verbose one.
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Re:4.6B Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment by shmeeed on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:17AM (#44520684)
Autors are often paid by word count. Note that I'm not saying that's the reason here, but it could be.
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