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
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
The same formation appears, with greater or less distinctness, in many of the quinary scales already quoted, and in many more of which mention might be made.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
It is quite within the bounds of possibility that the prehistoric nations of Europe possessed and used a quinary numeration.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
