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Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by cgh on Friday February 06, 2015 @12:53PM (#9010367)
Both the Associated Press Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style recommend spelling out numbers less than nine and ninety-nine, respectively.
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Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by sp332 on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:15PM (#9010535)
That's just a style recommendation. It doesn't mean that doing it the other way is wrong.
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Re:Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple by dreamweapon on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:24PM (#9010597)
Which is, of course, hardly a comparable proscription.

Nor is it widely adhered to, in colloquial usage.

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