Draft:Power of five
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Comment: No WP:RS, WP:IS provided. This draft is incomplete. Incoherent and lacking in context. A more substantial article on the same subject might already exist in mainspace. QEnigma (talk) 09:29, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
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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[edit]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 |