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Draft:Power of five

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a power of five is a number of the form 5n where n is an integer, that is, the result of exponentiation with number five as the base and integer n as the exponent. The first few non-negative powers of five are:

1, 5, 25, 125, 625, 3125, 15625, etc. (Sequence A000351 in the OEIS)

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The powers of three give the place values in the quinary numeral system.

Quinary 0 1 2 3 4 10 11 12 13 14 20 21 22
Decimal 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Quinary 23 24 30 31 32 33 34 40 41 42 43 44 100
Decimal 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

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