To amplify this a bit, in binary the relative and absolute errors are within a factor of two, but by a factor of up to 10 for decimal. IBM actually used to use base 16 on some hardware but the rel/abs error disparity of factor 16 hurt and it was eventually abandoned.
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To amplify this a bit, in binary the relative and absolute errors are within a factor of two, but by a factor of up to 10 for decimal. IBM actually used to use base 16 on some hardware but the rel/abs error disparity of factor 16 hurt and it was eventually abandoned.