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		mkl 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes Most have 10. That's the reason we use base 10 for numbers, even though 12 would make a lot of things easier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal

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