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[–] MuckyWaffles@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago

The only true base is binary. I'm not even kidding, I still sometimes convert numbers to binary for the sake of simplifying operations if I'm tired. Have you ever tried calculating square roots in binary? It's shockingly easy compared to decimal.