quinary

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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

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

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

But both show an incipient quinary tendency in their names for 5 and 10.

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

An occasional ternary trace is also found in number systems otherwise decimal or quinary vigesimal; as the dlkunoutl, second 3, of the Haida Indians of British Columbia.

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