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Number bases

#&summary This is fairly serious. #&

Base Description
u-nary the always true base
bi-nary the somewhat true base
tri-nary hipster binary ("binary is so mainstream")
revolutio-nary trinary instead of binary
counterrevolutio-nary binary
imagi-nary unary imagined to be useful
visio-nary binary or trinary, depending on the person
statio-nary trinary or binary, depending on the person
ordi-nary base 10 ("this works, so why use something else?")
extraordi-nary base 11
veteri-nary base 14 ("Tetra? Is that an animal?")
no-nary unary
u-r-i-nary binary (mind melt)
evolutio-nary base 60
arbitr-ary whatever