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  2. 5 - Wikipedia

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    5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5). [1] 5 is the first safe prime, [2] and the first good prime.

  3. History of ancient numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    Number systems have progressed from the use of fingers and tally marks, perhaps more than 40,000 years ago, to the use of sets of glyphs able to represent any conceivable number efficiently. The earliest known unambiguous notations for numbers emerged in Mesopotamia about 5000 or 6000 years ago.

  4. Timeline of numerals and arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    c. 20,000 BC — Nile Valley, Ishango Bone: suggested, though disputed, as the earliest reference to prime numbers as also a common number. [1]c. 3400 BC — the Sumerians invent the first so-known numeral system, [dubious – discuss] and a system of weights and measures.

  5. Latin numerals - Wikipedia

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    The cardinal number quīnque ‘five’, with its cognates Old Irish coíc ‘five’, Greek πέντε pénte ‘five’, Sanskrit पञ्च pañca ‘five’, leads back to Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe; the long -ī-, confirmed by preserved -i-in most Romance descendants, must have been transferred from the ordinal quīntus ‘fifth ...

  6. Numbers in Egyptian mythology - Wikipedia

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    An Ethiopian mage comes to challenge Egypt's greatest mage—to reading of a sealed letter—five hundred (five times five times five times four) years after the atrocity depicted in it occurred. The star, or pentagram, representing the afterlife, has five points. Fives are less common in Egyptian mythology.

  7. Roman numerals - Wikipedia

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    The Roman numerals, in particular, are directly derived from the Etruscan number symbols: 𐌠 , 𐌡 , 𐌢 , 𐌣 , and 𐌟 for 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100 (they had more symbols for larger numbers, but it is unknown which symbol represents which number). As in the basic Roman system, the Etruscans wrote the symbols that added to the desired ...

  8. Number - Wikipedia

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    An even number is an integer that is "evenly divisible" by two, that is divisible by two without remainder; an odd number is an integer that is not even. (The old-fashioned term "evenly divisible" is now almost always shortened to "divisible".) Any odd number n may be constructed by the formula n = 2k + 1, for a suitable integer k.

  9. Quinary - Wikipedia

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    Quinary (base 5 or pental [1] [2] [3]) is a numeral system with five as the base.A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five digits on either hand.. In the quinary place system, five numerals, from 0 to 4, are used to represent any real number.