I completely agree, finger counting makes much more sense, smaller times-tables, etc, but I don't like the naming, using existing numbers, or 1000 groupings. O

I completely agree, finger counting makes much more sense, smaller times-tables, etc, but I don't like the naming, using existing numbers, or 1000 groupings. One problem with all these alternative base number systems is they reuse our base-10 digits. To me '10' instinctively means 'ten', '13' is automatically read as thriteen, and so on. They need to use a completely different set of digits (and names) so that you 'feel' the new base, and avoid confusion. There are already proposed names for exponents; "nil", "un", "bi", "tri", "quad", and "pent" - those should be the names of the numbers too, and the exponents should be direct rather than x3, ie "unex" is sixes, bi-ex is 6x6s, tri-ex is 6x6x6s, etc.