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

As the count proceeds further, the quinary base may be retained, or it may be supplanted by a decimal or a vigesimal base.

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

If, for example, 8 is expressed by 5-3 in a quinary decimal system, 98 will be 9 � 10 + 5-3.

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