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Every base is base 10
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what about numbers larger than 16?
There are still 20 more letters that can be used as stand-ins. Things will get interesting if you try to go past Base 36, though.
this is exactly what i was trying to get at
Make up a new symbol?
Or use ancient scripts like Phoenician or Glagolitic.
We've got base 64, though it doesn't quite follow the convention of starting with digits and following up with letters:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
Base /+1 lol
what about numbers after 64? comment OP and i were trying to come up with a universal rule which we did in his response to my first comment