senary

Example Sentences

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The language of the Sundas,209 or mountaineers of Java, contains traces of senary counting.

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

In this he is not original: his fame must rest on his senary tripod.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

But no one has, because of this likeness, ever suggested that these tribes ever counted by the senary method.

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

The sages applied the senary to the physical man; while the septenary was, for them, the symbol of his immortal spirit.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation.”

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