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One doubt. Whats this "decimal" number system? Btw, humans have 1010 fingers. Can't you count?
"Suppose we had followed binary system, all calculations would have been tougher, representing (and hence remembering) even small numbers would have required more digits. Would that have led to better neuro-evlotions (in terms of computation and memory) ?"
Memory is for those who can't compute. A string of bits is more easily compressible than a string of chars (more likely to have repeatition). So we can store numbers in compressed form :-p besides, it is easy to compute in binary. Again what is this "digit" that u just mentioned? Is it something like our "bit" ? :-p
"memory is for those who can't compute." - NO. The Turing machine has memory. All theoretical computer models assume availability of memory. Yes; digit is like bittu. If we had followed binary system, we would have used the word digitu instead of bittu.
the intended meaning was that anything that can be computed (efficiently), shouldn't be stored. (In other words, if the Kolmogorov complexity of the object you would like to store is less than the size of the object itself, you'd rather store the computation).
Yea, the kangaroo complexity matter makes sense.
On a serious Note:
1) You ask this question only because the decimal system is popular today. (Sumerians and the Babylonians used Sexagecimal system -- base 60)
2) The same can be asked about why anthropomorphs have a pair of arms, pair of legs. We could have certainly done better with 4 pairs of them. I believe evolution is an optimization algorithm, that has its quirks (exploration vs exploitation) in the form of random mutation. Not everything we have is "optimal".... Read More
3) The same can be asked about religion. Why is Christianity, Islam the two most popular religions in the world. Are they the "optimal" ? (I guess not :-p)
4) The entire universe in the space-time continuum (the state of every matter in it) can be considered as a string of bits (infinitely long). The current "configuration" is only one of the infinite possibilities. We do not know the "distribution" of these configuration (yet?). May be all configurations have a finite probability, may be some are more probable.
so the right question to ask is perhaps NOT "why is this possible?", but "how probable is this"
:-)
Ippidi pesittu irundha no scope for finding a figure....so lets dissolve this debate and get back to work.

