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		cgh on Feb 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Appl... Both the Associated Press Stylebook and the Chicago Manual of Style recommend spelling out numbers less than nine and ninety-nine, respectively.

sp332 on Feb 6, 2015 | [–]

That's just a style recommendation. It doesn't mean that doing it the other way is wrong.

dreamweapon on Feb 6, 2015 | [–]

Which is, of course, hardly a comparable proscription.

Nor is it widely adhered to, in colloquial usage.

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