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Honestly, using base 10 for everything is actually super recent in historical terms.
For a lot of things throughout history going back the babylonians, things were base 60, the babylonians were base 24, and a lot of stuff in English history is based around these as well, which is why you'd have "sixpence" -- their entire money system was base 240 or something nuts like that. So the idea that other cultures would set up their number naming conventions on another base than 10 then look strange because of it isn't so insane.
We use base 60 more in our lives than you think -- 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours (which is divisible by 60) in a day, 360 degrees in a circle.
If you think about it, it makes some sense -- in a world before calculators, having a base that can be divided in many ways without getting into long division would be quite efficient, even if it doesn't match our number of fingers (or the number system we're using)

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My alphanumerical writing system is Base100. Because I am a being made of love and wonder.

Lord Nougat
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As a being made of hatred and wonder, I am utterly confused.

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Oh yeah man; I invented a Base100 syllabographic system that unifies letters with numbers. And because each letter is a number, each word is, too. And it’s designed for English pronunciations. Relative to the Latin Alphabet, it has its strengths and weaknesses. But it works rather well, and has the added bonus that every word is also a number.

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Furthermore, by my calculations, it has the absolute maximum explicit information density that can possibly fit into the smallest number of penstrokes. If there is a way to pack more direct and explicit meaning into the least amount of pen-work, I can’t even begin to fathom what it could be.