> The SI base unit for mass is the kilogram. This reminds me of something I was unaware of until very recently; the decibel (dB), is one tenth of a Bel. The d

> The SI base unit for mass is the kilogram. This reminds me of something I was unaware of until very recently; the decibel (dB), is one tenth of a Bel. The discussion was that you'll never confuse a B(byte) with a B(bel) because we never specify 10dB as 1B, and we almost never need to specify a 10th of a byte. But back to your point - we use base10 for everything but RAM. So if we'd stuck to one system to avoid confusion, RAM probably wouldn't have won.