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Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by MisterFrog to c/engineeringmemes
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The only numbers I will ever spell are one and zero, and only when using them as a pronoun, or for emphasis, respectively.

Is there ever a reason to not to use symbols when dealing with numbers? Why would "fourteen whatevers" ever be preferable to "14 whatevers". It's just so much easier to read numbers as symbols, not spelled out.

(Caveat, not including multipliers, like "273 billion").

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Kinda ironic that for some reason the picture doesn't load for me

[–] MisterFrog 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah not sure what happened to it :/ I uploaded it to Lemmy.world

Here it is again, just for you ;)

[–] MisterFrog 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well this is ironic. Something with Voyager, perhaps? I dunno.

It's the bugs bunny no meme, for style guides asking you to spell out numbers under 10.