senary

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Finally, in the numerals used by the natives of the Marshall Islands, the following curiously irregular sequence also contains a single senary numeral:216 6. thil thino = 3 + 3.

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

In this he is not original: his fame must rest on his senary tripod.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene

The sages applied the senary to the physical man; while the septenary was, for them, the symbol of his immortal spirit.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

One remarkably interesting number system is that exhibited by the Mosquito tribe212 of Central America, who possess an extensive quinary-vigesimal scale containing one binary and three senary compounds.

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

Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation.”

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