How to convert Quinary to Decimal
Quinary 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. In the quinary place system, five numerals, from 0 to 4, are used to represent any real number. According to this method, five is written as 10, twenty-five is written as 100 and sixty is written as 220.The decimal numeral system is the standard system for denoting integer and non-integer numbers. It is the extension to non-integer numbers of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. For writing numbers, the decimal system uses ten decimal digits, a decimal mark, and, for negative numbers, a minus sign "-". The decimal digits are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; the decimal separator is the dot "." in many countries.
Formula
Follow these steps to convert a quinary number into decimal form:
- Write the powers of 5 (1, 5, 25, 125, 625, and so on) beside the quinary digits from bottom to top.
- Multiply each digit by it's power.
- Add up the answers. This is the solution.
| Digit | Power | Multiplication |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 625 | 1250 |
| 4 | 125 | 500 |
| 3 | 25 | 75 |
| 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |