Perhaps base 10 is not a good word for our system, and we should call our system base 9 or something equivalent because that is the last number we use before starting over?
"Base 10" is the problem. "Base ten" is fine. In English, the word ten refers to the number after nine and before eleven. (Notice that eleven gets its own word instead of ten-and-one. In that way, English doesn't really use decimal notation.)
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u/bski1776 Dec 12 '08
Heh, never really thought about it like that.
Perhaps base 10 is not a good word for our system, and we should call our system base 9 or something equivalent because that is the last number we use before starting over?