regarding binary vs decimal prefixes and the former's daft similar naming to the (already well established) latter.
A short story with Demerzel and Empire.
http://www.danamania.com/tmp/BinaryStar.html
Expanding on this post: https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/116204293922468758
"His robe - magnificent, ceremonial, and insufficient for the seriousness of the occasion - dragged behind him with its own theatrical resentment. The man was dressed like a god attending a beach party, but was now one who had wandered accidentally into the office of an angry astrophysics accountant - and physics always balances the books."
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"Empire stared at her as if she had just confessed that the project had been designed by a wombat."
LOVE THIS!!! XD
Nanoraptor
R.L. Dane 
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