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This will be a very brief summary of WP:MOSNUM, intended to eventually replace sections from 10 to 13 of WP:MOS. It should be about 40% of the current size of said sections of WP:MOS, and it won't include recommendations which are seldom useful except to editors of very specialized articles, such as those on scientific notation or non-base-10 numbers.
In general, whole numbers from zero to nine are preferably written in words; greater numbers are preferably written in figures, but may also be written in words if they are expressed in one or two words. However:
), e.g. 85 kg. The percent sign and the symbols of the degree, prime, and second of arc are unspaced (37%, 45°), but not the symbols of the degree Celsius and the degree Fahrenheit (20 °C).![]() | This
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MDCollins (
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This will be a very brief summary of WP:MOSNUM, intended to eventually replace sections from 10 to 13 of WP:MOS. It should be about 40% of the current size of said sections of WP:MOS, and it won't include recommendations which are seldom useful except to editors of very specialized articles, such as those on scientific notation or non-base-10 numbers.
In general, whole numbers from zero to nine are preferably written in words; greater numbers are preferably written in figures, but may also be written in words if they are expressed in one or two words. However:
), e.g. 85 kg. The percent sign and the symbols of the degree, prime, and second of arc are unspaced (37%, 45°), but not the symbols of the degree Celsius and the degree Fahrenheit (20 °C).