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[–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

Good to know about MacOS and Linux. I usually never turn on the human readable mode on my distros because most are VMs.

Anyway, computers absolutely work best with working with numbers 2^n. That gives the most amount of space per bit. Otherwise, we would end up using the same amount of transistors for a fewer number of states. They could also greatly complicate the ALU to determine if it suddenly entered a forbidden state. Two's compliment would certainly be much more difficult.

Submitting would be nearly impossible too

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