[everybodyknows]

How does promotion by a single non-profit talking shop, however celebrated or intellectual were its founders, make it a "valid notation"?

Five digits don't even make sense in practical anthropic terms, since we're obviously headed for a shitload of trouble long before the hundreds digit next wraps.

[klyrs]

Indeed, my joke was written with the full knowledge of this farce. To make any prediction about technology in use 8000 years from now is just silly.