senary

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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

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

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

Finally, in the numerals used by the natives of the Marshall Islands, the following curiously irregular sequence also contains a single senary numeral:216 6. thil thino = 3 + 3.

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

In the dialect of the Mille tribe a single trace of senary counting appears, as the numerals given below show:215 6. dildjidji.

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