name of the highest a number has to be in a numbering system before flipping to a second digit

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Name of the highest a number a number has to be in a numbering system when incrementing before flipping it to a second digit and setting the previous digit to 0?

In hex it's F (15), in decimal it's 9, octal it's 7, in binary it's 1.

But what is it called?