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From: "Adam Raizen" <araizen@newmail.net>

la mark. cusku di'e

> That there
> shouldn't be ways to talk about other bases (like ju'u) or even
> "fix" a base as temporary default (in the Dozenal Society's journal,
> for example (would likely be implicit there), or in a computer
> science textbook) is not at issue: those things should definitely be
> possible.

The standard way of fixing a base (or overring any mex convention) is
"ti'o". So fixing binary could perhaps be "ti'o li pa su'i pa te
nu'aju'u", for example. (nu'aju'u: number x1 is the result of
evaluating mex x2 according to base x3)

mu'o mi'e .adam.