quinary
Example Sentences
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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
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
Up to this point the Greenlander's scale is almost purely quinary.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
In its structure the quinary is the simplest, the most primitive, of the natural systems.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Levi Leonard Conant
