quinary

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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

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

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

The Nahuatl, on the other hand, counts from 5 to 10 by the ordinary quinary method, and then appears to pass into the decimal form.

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

This leaves the formation of higher terms entirely unknown, and shows nothing beyond the quinary or non-quinary character of the system.

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