Talk:Corpus Language/@comment-27151686-20151109145534/@comment-96.33.169.212-20160104140355

As another user said, Binary. I wanted to add, though, that this is a nice touch. The corpus worship technology. Embracing binary could be seen as an extension of this. Plus, in some cases binary is far more efficient.

It's more... logarithmic in comparison to number size and number value.

1 is 1, but 10 is twice the size of 1 and therefore 2. Likewise, 100 is 4, 1000 is 8, 1 000 is 16, 10 000 is 32, 100 000 is 64 (spaces added for legibility.) 111 111 would be 127.

That said, this may SEEM inefficient when you have access to multiple characters per digit space, but using our hands...? You can count to ten on two hands using base 10, but you can count to 1023 on your two hands using binary--all fingers out: 11111 11111. 512+128+64+32+16+8+4+2+1=1023.

When it comes to fanatical space bureaucrats, binary fits the bill almost too well.