RE: What's 1 to do?

["Sean Brierley" <sbrierley -at- Accu-Time -dot- com>]

I recommend sticking by a style guide, whether it's Chicago 14 or some
other reference text plus your own set of rules.

Cheers,

Sean

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I've observed an alarming tendency for the numbers 0 through 10 to be 
presented as digits, rather than as written-out numbers. Stylebooks (AP 
is the one I remember best without looking anything up) invariably 
recommended not using digits for those small numbers except when 
appropriate, as in scientific work. Now as I read articles on the web, 
supposedly professionally written, I come across lonesome digits in what

feels like 2 out of every 5 cases. It looks stupid to me. Have the rules

changed while I wasn't looking?

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When the battle's lost and 1.
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