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: sold out so large an amount of stock, that he paid sixteen thousand pounds a year in dividends to escape detection.

SOLUTION: sold out so large an amount of stock, that he paid £16,000 a year in dividends to escape detection.

PROBLEM: The Secret Service was organized as a division of the Department of the Treasury in eighteen sixty five, to deal with counterfeiting.

SOLUTION: The Secret Service was organized as a division of the Department of the Treasury in 1865, to deal with counterfeiting.

PROBLEM: On October nine, nineteen sixty two he went to the Dallas office of the Texas Employment Commission

SOLUTION:
On October 9, 1962 he went to the Dallas office of the Texas Employment Commission