quinary

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Even in the South American binary counting schemes, linguists see the beginnings of a quinary system.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Numbers like seven and 31 belonged to all of these systems, quinary, decimal, and vigesimal alike.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Modern mathematicians would say that Gog, the wolf carver, used a five-based or quinary counting system.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Quinary counting is not uncommon in the “Dark Continent,” and there is no apparent reason why vigesimal reckoning should be any less common than quinary.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard

The origin of the quinary mode of counting has been discussed with some fulness in a preceding chapter, and upon that question but little more need be said.

From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard