Quinary (base-5 or pental) is a numeral system with five as the base. A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five fingers on either hand.
base 5
base 5 is a positional numeral system with five as its base. It uses 5 different digits for representing numbers. The digits for base 5 could be 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.