This is ignoring the natural fact that we have 8 bit bytes because programmers have 8 fingers.

No, we still have 10. Real programmers think in octal. ;)

childintime 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Available. As they suck on their thumbs.

mkl 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	alserio 6 days ago \| parent [-]
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