https://xkcd.com/2835

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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.

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    1 year ago

    According to this article, the factoradical system gets efficient for numbers larger than 20!, but i guess this here is a shining example of less is more is less