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Unrelated, but I read a article a while back which said something similar, but it was based on the fact that our entire mathematical system is designed around "base 10" and as such is only relevant in many constructs to our specific human 'ten fingered', interpretation of math.

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This is false. As soon as you get to first-year undergraduate maths, one discards log-to-base-10, all but permanently. Nearly all the rest of integer arithmetic is performed in an arbitrary base (if it's being considered "additively" in some sense), or much more commonly, using prime factorisation, which is independent of any base.

Areas of maths which are not number theory basically never mention the number which is twice five at all, and could be done happily without ever knowing that there was some privileged base in which we count the naturals.

Ironically the publisher of that article used a variety of radices to make the claim that 10 is the only radix!

2 - to enter and transmit data on the machine

10 - radix in question

16 - color description on the page

etc.

Of course 10 is the only radix

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