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by saalweachter 1031 days ago
The biggest argument against base 10 is that one day our descendants will have to explain to aliens, "because the monkeys that built us had ten fingers".

Positively mortifying.

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And those aliens would shrug "the slugs that built us had no fingers at all, that's why we're using binary, not because of electronics."