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So what do we do when we get to base 10? Do we use A, B, C, etc? No: Numbers larger than about 3.6 million are simply illegal.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
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I appreciated them correcting Randall's bad alt-text math - he was off by a power of ten!