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Originally Posted By u/Electronic_Web_1623 At 2025-05-05 11:15:46 AM | Source


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[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just general advice for anyone that noticed this is awkward to read, when you have to write two numbers back to back like this, do one as letters.

One 10000 person protest or ten 1000 person protests. Alternately, all as letters also works. But numbers in a sentence tend to pop more.

Standard practice is to do the simpler number as words and the more complicated number as numbers.

1 ten thousand person protest or 10 one thousand person protests doesn't look as good, despite still being better than all numbers.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I like using "x" when specifying a quantity. Example: 1x 10,000-person and 10x 1,000-person

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's a good way too.