[klyrs]

Agreed, railing against language and cultural context is literally futile. Factoradic is the one true base. There, "order of magnitude" would depend not only upon (my very unique) cultural context but also the absolute magnitude involved (at the low end, "double" is an order of magnitude; then "triple", then "quadruple", etc).

[chrismorgan]

I love these sorts of discussions. You learn things you’ve never heard of before. I can easily see how it works and how it’d be useful sometimes, but I’ve never come across it before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_radix is good related reading (including the concept of measuring time in this way; now that is something that we sometimes do in software, more or less).