Comment by cdcformatc on 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.

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Comment by Malgas at 28/07/2014 at 19:58 UTC

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What's wrong with "the highest single-digit number in the system is thirty seven"?