Plain Figures is a method of presenting numbers so they are reader friendly. It is based around the work statisticans Tufte, Ehrenberg, Chapman and others and set out, among other places in British Standard 7581:1992 A Guide to the Presentation of Tables and Graphs published by the British Standards Institute. There are various books on the subject including Ehrenberg's A Primer in Data Reduction, Chapman's Plain Figures and Bigwood & Spore's Presenting Numbers, Tables and Charts.
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