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I'm yet to hear of any culture that uses any base other than ten, for one simple reason - we have ten fingers. People began counting on their fingers. Quod Erat Demonstrandum
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Roman Numerals are base 5. Tally marks, the very first method of writting numbers, are base 1.
It's funny, actually. I was longing just yeseterday that Britain could reintroduce pre-decimalisation currency. I love shillings, crowns, florins and farthings. Thai currency rocked before decimalisation, too. Governments are confusing culture and science.