quinary

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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

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

It is a fact, as will be fully illustrated in the following pages, that quinary number systems, when extended, usually merge into either the decimal or the vigesimal.

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

An occasional ternary trace is also found in number systems otherwise decimal or quinary vigesimal; as the dlkunoutl, second 3, of the Haida Indians of British Columbia.

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