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The base-2 (binary) system is simpler than a system based on any higher integer. In a way, it is the simplest possible number system.
The binary system requires only two digits. It is, therefore, simpler to code numbers for electrical, electronic or optical data storage systems.
Computers do much of their processing in binary. Hexadecimal is used as a kind of shortcut (easier to read for humans): each hexadecimal digit represents four binary digits.
Sixteen in the Binary code system is (1000)2
A.N.D. Leibniz defined the binary number system.