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

One of the purest examples of quinary numeration is that furnished by the Betoya scale, already given in full in Chapter III., and briefly mentioned at the beginning of this chapter.

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