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Although a lot of people will think number, the correct answer is text. There are a number of reasons for that. Most phone numbers start with zero, but zero will be dropped if it is at the start of a number. Phone numbers often have spaces and other non-numeric characters in them. You never do calculations with phone numbers, like adding them together or finding an average phone number, so there is no need for them to be numerical. So phone numbers and any other sort of identifying number, like code numbers or reference numbers, are normally stored as text.

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