Falc <ldebuyst@brutele.be> writes:
Binary is... very basic. On/off, true/false, yes/no. A lot of things
have a binary nature and I would expect it to be a rather universal concept.
Which means that it is likely that any civilization that develops
computers in whatever form they might be would start off with binary.
Later evolutions could maybe start working with higher bases, when
technology advances far enough.
Of course, that's opposite how humans developed computers. A little
bit of googling on comp.arch indicates ENIAC worked in base-10 (serial
pulses rather than voltage thresholds), and binary-coded decimal
arithmetic (basically, base-10 arithmetic) computers were in use
through the mid-1960s.
But that's a digression...