| We are used to dealing with numbers in the
decimal system, where we use a base of 10, counting up from 0 to 9 and then
resetting our number to 0 and carrying 1 into another column.This is
probably a result of having ten fingers.
The alien shown here has only eight
fingers, so it would most probably work in base 8, counting from 0 up to 7
and then resetting to 0 and carrying 1. So the number 10 in this system
would mean 8 in the decimal system. Confusing isn't it? Base 8 is called the
Octal system.
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