quinary

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An outline of Mr. Vigors’s Quinary System, is also given, and the reader referred to proper sources for illustrations.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 486, April 23, 1831 by Various

Quinary counting is not uncommon in the “Dark Continent,” and there is no apparent reason why vigesimal reckoning should be any less common than quinary.

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