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The highest number you can show without doing any math.
means The number after four, equal to the fingers on one hand.
from From Old English 'fīf', part of a long Germanic line (related to German 'fünf', Dutch 'vijf') that traces back to Proto-Indo-European 'pénkwe'. That same ancient root also gave Greek 'pente' (as in pentagon) and Latin 'quinque' (as in quintet) — so 'five' is a distant cousin of both, all descended from one old word humanity apparently needed very early on.
- hand count
- exactly the fingers evolution gave most of us
- high five
- became a sports ritual only in the late 1970s
- prime status
- divisible only by itself and one
- base system
- some cultures counted in fives before tens caught on