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base 10 (infosec.pub)

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[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 14 hours ago

My species uses e as its base because that is proven to be mathematically optimal. In our number system, humans use base 2.3025850... (but written entirely as powers of e using our far superior elegant notation, of course!)