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Latest revision as of 18:47, 10 April 2025
Base 
is the base that includes the digits 
and 
. It is the base that we are most used to, the base that we do calculations in, unless another base is specified. Base most likely became popular because humans have 10 fingers. In base , each digit has times more value than the digit after. The ones digit is the last digit before the decimal point. Digits after the decimal point are tenths, hundreths, thousandths, etc. Base 10 is now the most widely used base in the world, much more popular than the next 3, binary, octal, and hexadecimal.
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