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.
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Question: Baker placed himself on a motorcycle about two hundred feet from the corner of Elm and Houston Streets where he said he heard the shots.

Answer: Baker placed himself on a motorcycle about 200 feet from the corner of Elm and Houston Streets where he said he heard the shots.


Question: 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,

Answer: 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,


Question: On a certain day, the twenty seventh October, eighteen sixty two, the two were arrested simultaneously;

Answer:
On a certain day, the 27th October, 1862, the two were arrested simultaneously;