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What will it be?

If you don't know, Decimal is the numbering system used in mainstream America and other parts of the world.

I don't know anything about binary, hexadecimal or octal. Decimal!

Decimal for it's ease of use... but definately binary for fun ;p

Binary is the best. It's so much more efficient.

3rd.

For now I'll vote decimal because it's the one I normally use and it's by far the easiest one to read (mostly because it's what I've learned to read). If I could actually change the world's number base, though, I'd probably go with either base 12 (which isn't on your list) or binary. I know binary sounds like an enormous bother to write out, but keep in mind we wouldn't be forced to use a strictly digital system like we have now; there are other possible ways of writing numbers that could make binary much easier to use.

No, like I said, I mean actually leaving the standard digital system of writing numbers, if not completely than at least to some extent. See, the problem with binary is that, when you write it in 0s and 1s, it gets quite long to say even rather small numbers (like in the hundreds or thousands). To shorten it, we'd have to use different characters. But it seems to me that, so long as we use complex characters at all, binary is going to be too long. So instead, I've been thinking of new ways to write it, using simple characters. Dots and lines are one interesting possibility (turning '01001', for example, into '.|..|'), but can we get more efficient even than that?

What about the idea of, where there's a string of enough digits of the same type in a row, using a number inside brackets (or whatever) to represent it. So '0101100000000000010', instead of being '.|.||............|.', would be '.|.||<||..>|.'. See, I just got rid of six extra characters. Meanwhile, a computer would still remember it in binary and merely translate it to this system when displaying it on the screen. This is just one example of new ways in which we could write numbers to make it easier and more effective. Once you start thinking outside the box, there's tons of interesting stuff you can do.

green_meklar.. that's what he was refering to his base 16.

Binary is 00110001001100110011001100110111.

Binary is not 1337, binary is too much work.
01000011011001010110111001110100011100100110010101110010011010010010000001101001 01110011001000000111010001101000011001010010000001101100011011110111001001100100 0010000001101111011001100010000001100001011011000110110000100001

Base 13.

Because in base 13 6 x 9 = 42.

But base 16 is base 16. It's not a way of writing binary because it isn't binary. It can be more easily translated into binary than decimal can, but it's still not binary.

That has some 24 digits in decimal, so it would be seldom that you'd want to write out such a long number. But if you did want to, it becomes somewhat easier with my system:
.||....|..|<||.>||...|..||.|..|.||.||...||.||...||.|..|.||.||||.||.|||...|<||.>||.||||.||.|||..||.
.|.|.|||..||..|<||.>||....|.||.|||..||..|....|<||.>||||.|..||..|.|.|||..|..||.||||.||..|.|.|||..||
I managed to omit four digits, and the remaining ones are much easier to write than 0s and 1s, as well as shorter.

zomg base 26, you simply use letters.
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... .. ... uh, nice job everyone...
How about base 36?
0-9 then A-Z

I made an any-base-to-any-base converter for my TI-84 Plus Silver Edition calculator. It took some time to figure out how to do it, but with help of a thick JavaScript book (at most 4 pages of it), I figured out how to convert Decimal <-> Hexadecimal, which helped me figure out how to convert between other bases.

HELP!!! Darth Vader is going to kill me!!!!

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Roman numbers!!!