This is a complex topic, with many exceptions, and there is no consistency we can rely on among blogs, books, newspapers, and magazines. are also known as Arabic numerals, or Hindu-Arabic numerals, Indian numerals, Hindu numerals, European numerals, and Western numerals. The symbol may be used with a figure in headlines, tables and charts: 5 Raise 93. But: five percentage points 12 percentage points. In Arabic they are known as 'Indian numbers' ( arqa-m hindiyyah). The preceding number is always expressed in figures (except where it begins a sentence): 80 percent 8 percent one-half of 1 percent four-fifths of 1 percent 0.5 percent. The Urdu numerals are also known as 'East Arab' numerals and differ slightly from those used in Arabic. In Chicago style, as opposed to AP style, we would write four hundred, eight thousand, and twenty million with no numerals-but like AP, Chicago style would require numerals for 401 8,012 and 20,040,086. The numerals referred to here as 'Arabic' and 'Urdu' are those used when writing those languages. The Chicago Manual of Style recommends spelling out the numbers zero through one hundred and using figures thereafter-except for whole numbers used in combination with hundred, thousand, hundred thousand, million, billion, and beyond (e.g., two hundred twenty-eight thousand three hundred thousand one million).
Here are four examples of how to write numbers above 999,999 in AP style: 1 million 20 million 20,040,086 2.7 trillion. America's two most influential style and usage guides have different approaches: The Associated Press Stylebook recommends spelling out the numbers zero through nine and using numerals thereafter-until one million is reached. Policies and philosophies vary from medium to medium. using figures (also called numerals) is largely a matter of writers' preference. Except for a few basic rules, spelling out numbers vs.