Comment by [deleted] on 28/07/2014 at 11:29 UTC

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Comment by yawkat at 28/07/2014 at 13:05 UTC

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Or unary.

Comment by stubborn_d0nkey at 28/07/2014 at 18:55 UTC

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Its base ten.

Comment by cdcformatc at 28/07/2014 at 19:29 UTC

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Generalized to any base, "The highest single digit number in the system is (10-1)".

You are going to have trouble communicating this in English beyond base 36 though.