Pental system

Alright kiddo, today we're going to talk about a system of counting called the pental system. You know how we usually count with our fingers, right? We have five fingers on each hand and we count one, two, three, four, five on each hand. That's how the pental system works too, except we use symbols to represent the numbers instead of fingers.

In the pental system, we have five symbols that we use to count instead of the ten symbols we use in the regular system. The symbols we use are 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. When we want to count higher than four, we add another symbol to represent five. So five would be represented by the symbol 10, just like how ten is represented by the symbol 10 in the regular system.

After five, we continue to add another symbol for each group of five. So six would be represented by the symbol 11, seven by 12, and so on. When we get to the number 15, we add another digit to the left of the first digit to represent another group of five. So fifteen would be represented by the symbol 20.

Using the pental system might seem strange compared to what we're used to, but it's actually used in some cultures around the world. The Mayans, for example, used a system similar to the pental system to count dates on their calendar.

So there you have it, kiddo! That's the pental system - a way of counting using five symbols instead of ten, and adding another symbol for each group of five.