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by NkVczPkybiXICG 4493 days ago
Because it's easy to do things in base 2 with binary signals (like the kind used in computers). It's unnatural to use base 10 for anything in this domain.

It would be extremely unintuitive if math could be done faster in any base except for 2 (or a power thereof) when running on a modern CPU.