Fifteen Afghan farmers with creased, leathery faces sit in the meeting hall. Sharifullah, who also gives only one name, says that in addition to corn, cotton, and potatoes, they also grow opium, which the farmers don't hesitate to admit in front of government officials.
Base (numbers). more ... Definition 1: The number that is going to be raised to a power. Example: in 82, 8 is the base Definition 2: How many numbers used in a number system The decimal number system that we use every day has 10 digits {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} and so it is Base-10. Binary digits can only be 0 or 1, so they are Base-2.
In mathematical numeral systems, the radix or base is the number of unique digits, including zero, that a positional numeral system uses to represent numbers. For example, for the decimal system the radix is ten, because it uses the ten digits from 0 through 9. In any numeral system, the base will always be written as 10. For example, 10 represents the number ten in the decimal system; 10 represents the number two in a base two system.