It pains me to suggest this, but we must ignore (one of) the teachings of Strunk and White. We must turn our backs on a number of other writing guides. And we must break our own habit of writing out numbers as words.
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Instead, we should represent numbers with numerals - a recent eye-tracking study suggests that they’re much more likely to capture online readers’ interest.
“[N]umerals often stop the wandering eye and attract fixations, even when they’re embedded within a mass of words that users otherwise ignore,” revealed
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Writing For Online Readers Goes Against The Book
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