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From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
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Subject: Re: number_base
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* Dmitry A Kazakov wrote:
> Wasn't it actually e or Pi? I remotely remember something like that.

e is the most efficient base to store large numbers. Unfortunaly hardware to
the base e is difficult to develop. That's why most systems choose the next
natural number around e to store date to this base.