Papageno
Five is the number of the birds in this painting, and also an interesting number indicated by a V in Roman numerals, after I II III IIII which all made sense.
Google gives me this: 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5). Five is the first prime, and the first good prime. And that's not all... 5 is also a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number.
I didn't get all of that, did you? I do love Fibonacci though.. and then I found this:
"The earliest counting systems in the world are thought to be quinary (base 5), which developed from simply counting the fingers on your hand. "
I love that!
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Thank you as always - erika