You could define it if you want but it kind of implodes since the whole point of our bases is just to describe what numerals we're allowed to use, and all those other sets of numbers are compositions of our numerals.
Eh there’s a veeeery small portion of number theory that studies digit frequency in primes, which changes from base to base. I don’t know much about it though.
Computer scientists (probably engineers actually) care about bases for representation in the hardware. Most systems use binary representations, but some specialized devices like financial calculators represent numbers in base 10 (even though the circuits still operate on boolean logic)
Not always. SSDs usually store values in other bases, like TLC, where one cell actually represents 3 bits, QLC where it represents 4, and so on. This is the very reason why SSDs became cheap recently
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u/StevenC21 Nov 21 '20
You could define it if you want but it kind of implodes since the whole point of our bases is just to describe what numerals we're allowed to use, and all those other sets of numbers are compositions of our numerals.