The computer has made many more people aware of bases other than ten - in particular bases two and sixteen. What the computer uses does not affect the arguments - it's quite happy with base two. We are concerned here with the benefits to man of improving his calculating system. Membership of the Societies is open to all who have an interest in the development of arithmetic and measuring systems as vital tools with which to facilitate the conduct of our everyday affairs and to allow a clearer understanding of the ways in which the physical world is defined and ordered. We consider that the decimal system is inadequate and of limited competence in many aspects of numeration, since it is unable to express in simple terms the common proportions by which we order our practical and economic activities.
Decimals handicap the teaching of arithmetic and so inhibit understanding of the physical world.
By advocating the adoption of a more flexible numbering system for both scientific and general use we are forwarding the opinions of a considerable number of philosophers and mathematicians, both past and present, who have thought about the matter.