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Humans insist on using base 10 because we have 10 fingers. Historically other number base systems have been used, but probably the most commonly used and convenient for ten fingered beings, base 10, stuck and is the international standard of today. Computers use binary because they only have 2 'fingers' or electrical states to count with - '1', switched on, and '0' switched off.

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