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

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

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

Previous groupings were for particular numerations; this for numeration in general; being, in fact, the first numeric base,—the quinary.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various

Below 20 it is quinary, and, however far it might be extended, this quinary element would remain, making the scale quinary-vigesimal.

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