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by dbaupp 813 days ago
The base 10 is referring to conversion of bytes into a long decimal (base 10) integer, not that it's being stored in chunks of 10 bits.

But yes, you're right, it would be reasonable to think of this as encoding the bytes in base 1000, where each "digit" just happens to be shown to humans as 3 digits.