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Chapter 12.
Words such as nearly, about, around, approximately, etc., do not reflect indefinite expressions.
- The bass weighed about 6 pounds.
- She was nearly 8 years old.
12.23.
Except as indicated in rules 12.5 and 12.9, a number less than 10 is spelled out within a sentence.
- six horses
- five wells
- eight times as large
- but
- 3½ cans
- 2½ times or 2.5 times
12.24.
For typographic appearance and easy grasp of large numbers beginning with million, the word million or billion is used.
The following are guides to treatment of figures as submitted in copy. If copy reads—
- $12,000,000, change to $12 million
- 2,750,000,000 dollars, change to $2,750 million
- 2.7 million dollars, change to $2.7 million
- 2⅝ million dollars, change to $2⅝ million
- two and one-half million dollars, change to $2½ million
- a hundred cows, change to 100 cows
- a thousand dollars, change to $1,000
- a million and a half, change to 1½ million
- two thousand million dollars, change to $2,000 million
- less than a million dollars, change to less than $1 million
but $2,700,000, do not convert to $2.7 million
also $10 to $20 million; 10 or 20 million; between 10 and 20 million
- 4 million of assets
- amounting to 4 million
- $1,270,000
- $1,270,200,000
- $¾% billion; $2.75 billion; $2,750 million
- $500,000 to $1 million
