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On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 23:57:23 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> On 2025-06-21, Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
> 
>> rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>
>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 08:36:57 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>
>>>> Programmers use base-16.
>>>
>>> And 2, 8, and 10.  ARM processors are bringing bit twiddling back into
>>> style.
>>
>> Dang, I forgot about base 2!
> 
> There are 10 kinds of people:
> those who understand binary and those who don't.
> 
>> Base 8 is kind of annoying, you know.
> 
> "Base 8 is just like base 10, really - if you're missing two fingers."
>   -- Tom Lehrer

It sounds far-fetched but supposedly one culture used base 8 because they 
counted with the spaces between their fingers rather than their fingers.