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Every base is base 10
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i know about hexadecimal, but what if you need to refer to a base larger than 16? i'm not saying it isn't possible to create symbols for every number, i'm saying if you have to describe your base with more than one digit, you encounter a problem of not knowing what base that multi-digit number is in.
well no, i know, i'm just saying that's it's not really that big of a problem, unless you're using octal, and you skill issue.
You should design base systems to be independent of each other, and hex does a really good job at this, because often times it's prepended with 0x to imply hex.