Numeric supports base 8, 10, 16 but not 2 -- why?

[Oleg Grenrus]

+1

On 6.12.2020 20.04, David Feuer wrote:
> Agreed!
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2020, 1:03 PM Artem Pelenitsyn <a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com
> <mailto:a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Libraries,
>
>     I noticed the Numeric module has special-cased functions to read
>     and show integral types in bases 8, 10, 16 but not for base 2.
>     There are also generic-over-base versions, so an interested client
>     can implement the special case for base 2 themselves with little
>     hassle. Still, I think base 2 is common enough that we could
>     support it along with base 8, 10, 16 out of the box.
>
>     What do you think? I'm happy to submit a merge request if you concur.
>
>     Kind regards,
>     Artem Pelenitsyn
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