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Remove ambiguity at all costs!
But if they insist I write things out:
Ten-one Ten-two Ten-three Ten-four
I don't think it is clear as 11, 12, 13, 14 but hey who am I to argue?
You're in an engineering community, is ten-one actually wrong?
Consider the sequence: One, eleven, twenty-one, thirty-one, fourty-one, fifty-one... One hundred and one.
As far as the convention of writing numbers out in words when they're less than 10, there's also conventions for less than 15, wikimedia uses the convention if it can be written in two words it's optional to write it out as words.
Just a small note on this, style guides have all sorts of weird rules about spelling out numbers, most of which I personally think are nonsense, hence making a meme. Not necessarily just less than 10