An alien life form might not have 10 fingers and 10 toes, let a lone a base 10 numbering system. We wouldn't understand the basic premises that the technology is based on.

I agree anything truly alien would likely be difficult to work with, but I doubt the numbering system would be the main sticking point. Humans are already very familiar/proficient in working with non base 10 stuff like binary, and hexadecimal

An alien life form might not have 10 fingers and 10 toes, let a lone a base 10 numbering system. We wouldn't understand the basic premises that the technology is based on.

I agree anything truly alien would likely be difficult to work with, but I doubt the numbering system would be a problem. Humans are already very familiar/proficient in working with stuff like binary, and hexadecimal.