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

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

Such a scale is the one obtained from the Betoya language, already mentioned in Chapter III., where the formation of the numerals is purely quinary, as the following indicate:227 5. teente = 1 hand.

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

Below 20 it is quinary, and, however far it might be extended, this quinary element would remain, making the scale quinary-vigesimal.

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