: Re: Capitalization with compound nouns starting with a number Consider the technical term 4-terminal: if I were to start a paragraph with this term, or using it as column heading in a table, would

@Carla500

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Per the discussion in the comments: if you're using sentence case, I'd go with 4-terminal (lowercase T) because the 4 is the first character.

(I would still flinch to see a sentence which started with "4-terminal" instead of "Four-terminal," but I'm not in technical writing.)

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