Numbers

Writers in different disciplines follow various rules for presenting numbers in print. In college essays, the rules are simple.

1. Spell out any number that can be written in one or two words unless you are writing a paper that contains many figures.

Seven million nine hundred eighty-seven

764,745 forty-two percent 250

2. Do not start a sentence with a number.
3. Use numbers for dates, addresses, time.

Our class will start on October 15, 2000, at 9:00 a.m.

I live at 700 Main Street, Orlando, Florida 32807.

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