Here is one rhetor.p.,pical reason why. We all know that computers use binary logic 0 & 1 And we all know that 4 bits is a byte and 2 bites is a word And there are 16 bit words, and 32 bit words, and 64 bit words and so on everything is in groups of 8
Why?
It could have been worked out in base 10 just as easily as base 8 We have 10 finger, we all use base 10 - it would have been natural
But what if you were reverse engineering a computer system? One that was built by grey men with 3 fingers and a thumb that system would be done in their natural counting system - Right?
You got it - Base 8
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