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vigesimal
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Also known as base 20

thumb|The Maya numerals are an example of a base-20 numeral system.

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  • Places
  • Fractions
  • Cyclic numbers
  • Irrational numbers
  • Use
  • Quinary-vigesimal
  • Africa
  • Americas
  • Asia
  • Oceania
  • Caucasus
  • Europe
  • Software applications
  • Related observations
  • Examples in Mesoamerican languages
  • Powers of twenty in Yucatec Maya and Nahuatl
  • Counting in units of twenty
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Further reading

thumb|The Maya numerals are an example of a base-20 numeral system.

A vigesimal ( ) or base-20 (base-score) numeral system is based on twenty (in the same way in which the decimal numeral system is based on ten). Vigesimal is derived from the Latin adjective , meaning 'twentieth'.

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