[QUOTE=Ronald C. Semone]
I have read quickly all the previous replies and although I might have missed something, I don’t think anyone has answered the original question. Which does not surprise me because I asked the same question about a year ago and in spite of many replies never received an answer either. It was as if people did not understand my original question. Let me try again.
Suppose I give you an apple, and then I give you another apple, and then I give you another apple, and then I give you another apple,and then I give you another apple. I then ask you to write down how many apples I have given you using base 10. You would write “5.” If I then asked you how “5” is pronounced, you would say “five.” Now if I do the same to someone using base 2, he would write “101.” If I asked him how it is pronounced, what would he say? One oh one? One hundred and one? Five? Something else?
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Actually, if you read what I wrote, I answered the question. 