TASK DEFINITION: The task is to read a passage and convert numbers in their text forms into digit forms. The text numbers can be used to represent Quantity, Dates and Time, Addresses or Positions.
PROBLEM: testified that Commission Exhibit Number one sixty two was the jacket worn by the man they saw on November twenty two.

SOLUTION: testified that Commission Exhibit No. 162 was the jacket worn by the man they saw on November 22.

PROBLEM: In eighteen seventy one they crossed the Atlantic,

SOLUTION: In 1871 they crossed the Atlantic,

PROBLEM: were first made use of about eighteen twenty seven. That the need for prison reform was imperative may be gathered from the few out of many instances I have adduced,

SOLUTION:
were first made use of about 1827. That the need for prison reform was imperative may be gathered from the few out of many instances I have adduced,