6. Numbers spelled out or used in figures

Generally in ordinary text matter, whole numbers under one hundred should be spelled out and larger numbers expressed in figures, but see below for exceptions:

Tickets range from two to five rubles. There are twenty girls and sixteen boys in my class. Her grandmother is eighty-eight years old. Next year has 336 days. The population of the city is 300 830.

1. When numbers appear together in the same series, sentence, or paragraph, and are categorically related, they should be treated alike; if they have three or more digits, they should all appear as figures:

The company currently employs 112 women and 60 men. Three chess games were played that day which lasted 30,44 and 105 moves.

2. Normally numbers in dates, page numbers, decimal fractions, and percentages should be expressed in figures. Use th, st, or d after figures in dates if you want:

July 10, 1989 (July 10th); page 15; p. 324; an average of 10.35; a total of 100.5; 7 per cent interest; a maximum error of 10 %.

3. A number that would ordinary be expressed in figures should be spelled out if it occurs at the beginning of a sentence:

Forty men and 106 women were hired during the year. Thirty-seven per cent of employees receive low wages.

4. Approximate or indefinite numbers in hundreds or thousands should be spelled out:

At least ten thousand people were present at the meeting. My task was to write a twenty-five-hundred-word essay.

5. Very large round numbers may be expressed in figures followed by the appropriate unit spelled out:

A budget of $ 390.8 million; approximately 4.5 billion stars; over 10 billion possible combinations.

6. Fractional quantities, however, are usually expressed in figures:

After supper we walked for 3 1\2 miles more. These ceilings are 2 1/2 metres high.

7. When amounts of money are referred to in the text, the unit of currency should be spelled out if the amount is spelled out; if the amount is expressed in figures, it should be preceded by the symbol $ or any other:

He earns ninety-five dollars a week. Mr. Brown won $ 450.

The bus fare is now forty-five cents.

8. Amounts of money containing decimal fractions should be expressed in figures; if an amount which ordinarily would be spelled out occurs together or in series with a fractional amount, it should be expressed in figures:

The price went up from $5.00 to $5.50.

9. Generally ordinal numbers should be spelled out except when awkward or difficult to read:

This is his third try. His name is the seventeenth on the list.

Fifth Avenue; Fifty-Ninth Street; 2430 West 111th Street

Appendix 1

Series Time Line

In all ages people have expressed their beliefs and emotions in their art. They have chronicled both the everyday and benchmark events of their lives on any object at hand – walls, ceilings, floors, pottery, canvas, stone, wood, and cloth. People’s urge to express themselves seems implacable, and we are the fortunate recipients of this legacy – fortunate because by studying their art, we can understand the intimate values and lives of our ancestors, not just the dates of their wars or the geographical location of their civilization.

The nine programs of History through Art explore each era’s unique trends, as well as link that era to the past. Each program showcases the era’s great works of visual art and draws further insight from authentic period music and the thoughts of each era’s important writers. The programs are: Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, The Baroque, The Enlighten­ment, Romanticism, The Pre-Modern Era, and The Twentieth Century.

ANCIENT GREECE

800 BC-146 BC

ANCIENT ROME

509 BC - AD 476

THE MIDDLE AGES

AD 1-AD 1450

THE RENAISSANCE

1400-1550

THE BAROQUE

1545-1715

THE ENLIGHTENMENT

1715-1789

ROMANTICISM

1789-1860

THE PRE-MODERN ERA

1845-1900

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

1900-Present