I'm going to take the contrarian view: yes. Inertia is very powerful. We'll stay with base-10. Scientific notation is, not, btw, fundamentally a different numb

I'm going to take the contrarian view: yes. Inertia is very powerful. We'll stay with base-10. Scientific notation is, not, btw, fundamentally a different number system; it only provides for approximation of (most) very large or very small numbers, unless you want to spell out all the digits before the exponent, which of course would defeat the purpose. It's still really base-10.