In its structure the quinary is the simplest, the most primitive, of the natural systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Examples of this are furnished in a more or less perfect manner by nearly all so-called quinary-vigesimal and quinary-decimal scales.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Up to this point the Greenlander's scale is almost purely quinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

But both show an incipient quinary tendency in their names for 5 and 10.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

“Khumásiyah” which Lane (ii. 438) renders “of quinary stature.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

One of the purest examples of quinary numeration is that furnished by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Subordinate to either one of these the quinary may and often does appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

This scale is quinary-vigesimal, with no apparent decimal element in its composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

If, for example, 8 is expressed by 5-3 in a quinary decimal system, 98 will be 9 × 10 + 5-3.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

The quinary element does not disappear, but merely sinks into a relatively unimportant position.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

An occasional ternary trace is also found in number systems otherwise decimal or quinary vigesimal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

The foregoing examples will show with considerable fulness the wide dispersion of the quinary scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

But even then the universality of quinary counting for primitive peoples is by no means established.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

In its first 20 numerals it is quinary (see p. 141), and as a system must be regarded as quinary-vigesimal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Above 20 the systems become vigesimal, with a quinary or decimal structure appearing in all numerals except multiples of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

As the count proceeds further, the quinary base may be retained, or it may be supplanted by a decimal or a vigesimal base.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

This leads the quinary into the vigesimal scale, and produces the combination so often found in certain parts of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

It is quite within the bounds of possibility that the prehistoric nations of Europe possessed and used a quinary numeration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Any number system which passes the limit 10 is reasonably sure to have either a quinary, a decimal, or a vigesimal structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

The Nahuatl, on the other hand, counts from 5 to 10 by the ordinary quinary method, and then appears to pass into the decimal form.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Below 20 it is quinary, and, however far it might be extended, this quinary element would remain, making the scale quinary-vigesimal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

But it will be of interest to notice two or three numeral scales in which the quinary influence is so faint as to be hardly discernible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

This leaves the formation of higher terms entirely unknown, and shows nothing beyond the quinary or non-quinary character of the system.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Except for the presence of the quinary element the number just given is really expressed with just as great simplicity as it could be in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Previous groupings were for particular numerations; this for numeration in general; being, in fact, the first numeric base, -- the quinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference

A far more common method of progression is furnished by languages which interrupt the quinary formation at 10, and express that number by a single word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

The origin of the quinary mode of counting has been discussed with some fulness in a preceding chapter, and upon that question but little more need be said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

The same formation appears, with greater or less distinctness, in many of the quinary scales already quoted, and in many more of which mention might be made.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

But it is at least equally probable that he instinctively divides his total into 2 tens, and thus passes unconsciously from the quinary into the decimal scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

It is a fact, as will be fully illustrated in the following pages, that quinary number systems, when extended, usually merge into either the decimal or the vigesimal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

In the simplicity and regularity of its construction it is so noteworthy that it is worth repeating, as the first of the long list of quinary systems given in the following pages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

Their system of numeration is quinary, as will appear from the following list.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532] Reference

It may here be again remarked, that, to render the subject more clear, we have adopted the quinary arrangement of Professor.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

Besides all this, I say, this quinary number of Elements, (if you pardon the Expression) ought at least to have been restrain'd to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject.] Reference

And in many places he uses the ternary, quinary, and septenary number, especially the number nine (I. vii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Continent, "and there is no apparent reason why vigesimal reckoning should be any less common than quinary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference

The hundreds are identical with the numerals used in counting men (see p. 87), and then the quinary-vigesimal system is most evident. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Number Concept Its Origin and Development] Reference