what are the benefits of a factorial number system?

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After reading an article about factorial number system. It tells that you can present any number in a factorial system and in if you have a number $a_{n-1}...a_2a_1a_0$ in factorial number system, you can transform it to decimal as $\sum_{i=0}^{n}i!\cdot a_i$.

Nonetheless I found it really cool, I can not find a lot of applications of such a system beyond:

  • finding n-th lexicographical permutation (which is highlighted in the wiki)
  • big numbers can be represented with smaller number of digits (number higher than 25!)

Are there other applications of this number system?