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1. Decimal System

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   Deviation and Modern Application
   While base-ten is overwhelmingly dominant, historical and specialized applications sometimes employ different radices. For instance, the Babylonians used base-60 (sexagesimal), and modern computing relies almost universally on base-2 (binary) [^Knuth1997].
   The decimal system’s pervasive nature influences numerous non-mathematical organizational structures. For example, the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC), used extensively in library science, is a decimal-based system for cataloging knowledge [^UDC\_Guide]. Furthermore, th…