quinary
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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
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
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
Previous groupings were for particular numerations; this for numeration in general; being, in fact, the first numeric base,—the quinary.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
Therefore, although God is one by unity of essence, and trine by trinity of persons, nevertheless He is not quinary by the five notions.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
