senary
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The language of the Sundas,209 or mountaineers of Java, contains traces of senary counting.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard
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
In the dialect of the Mille tribe a single trace of senary counting appears, as the numerals given below show:215 6. dildjidji.
From The Number Concept Its Origin and Development by Conant, Levi Leonard
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
