Not quite sure what you mean, do you mean as a form of scientific notation, for example 3,000,000 would be represented as 3x106 (6 zeros)
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The form that uses only powers of ten are logarithms to base 10. The scientific notation does use powers of ten but the original number is also used in this representation.
Using power-of-notation makes it easy to multiply numbers.
Here's a clue. Ten needs to be one of the numbers.
No it is not. It is the metric system invented by the French which based on powers of ten. And it is the Empirical system, not the English system.
SI uses powers of 10.