The evolution of the modern Western digit for the numeral 5 cannot be traced back to the Indian system, as opposed to digits 1 to 4. The Kushana and Gupta empires in what is now See more

Astronomy
• There are five Lagrangian points in a two-body system.
Biology
• There are usually considered to be five senses (in general terms); the five basic tastes See more

• Modern musical notation uses a musical staff made of five horizontal lines.
• A scale with five notes per octave is called a pentatonic scale. See more

• "Give me five" is a common phrase used preceding a high five.
• The Olympic Games have five interlocked rings as … See more

Five is the third-smallest prime number, and the second super-prime. It is the first safe prime, the first good prime, the first balanced prime, and the first of three known See more

Poetry
A pentameter is verse with five repeating feet per line; the iambic pentameter was the most prominent form used by William Shakespeare See more

Judaism
• The Book of Numbers is one of five books in the Torah; the others being the books of See more