Occurrence in Human Languages
Many or all of the Chumashan languages originally used a base 4 counting system, in which the names for numbers were structured according to multiples of 4 and 16 (not 10). There is a surviving list of Ventureño language number words up to 32 written down by a Spanish priest ca. 1819.
The Kharosthi numerals has a partial base 4 counting system from 1 to 10.
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