senary
Example Sentences
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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 Levi Leonard Conant
The language of the Sundas,209 or mountaineers of Java, contains traces of senary counting.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
In this he is not original: his fame must rest on his senary tripod.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
One remarkably interesting number system is that exhibited by the Mosquito tribe212 of Central America, who possess an extensive quinary-vigesimal scale containing one binary and three senary compounds.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
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 Albert Pike
