A base may refer to any of the following:

  1. A base is the available numbers in a numbering system. For example, the most commonly known base is a base-10 numbering system or decimal numbers, which are 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9. Another common base when dealing with computers is the binary base-2, which only has the numbers 0 and 1.

Types of base

  • Base-2 (Binary)
  • Base-8 (Octal)
  • Base-10 (Decimal)
  • Base-16 (Hexadecimal)
  1. When referring to a computer part, a base is another term for a foot.

  2. When writing in HTML, the tag designates the base URL for every relative URL inside a page.

Base 2, Base 8, Base 10, Base 16, BCD, URL