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Five

Gives you five

From jackdclark·Updated June 22, 2026·View on GitHub·

All of the logic & heavy lifting is achieved in one self-contained file: The project is written primarily in JavaScript, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2014. It has gained significant community traction with 1,538 stars and 247 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: 5, five.

five.js

A library to overcomplicate 5.

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Usage

Require the module
javascript
var five = require('five');
In the browser
html
<script type="text/javascript" src="./five.js"></script>
Basic 5
javascript
five(); // 5

The Law of Fives

javascript
five.law(); // The Law of Fives states simply that: All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5. The Law of Fives is never wrong.
Addition
javascript
five() + five(); // 10
Multiplication
javascript
five() * five(); // 25
Division
javascript
five() / five(); // 1
Combinatorics
javascript
five.factorial(); // 120
Different sorts of 5
javascript
five.upHigh() // ⁵ five.downLow() // ₅ five.tooSlow() // 5, with a ~500 millisecond delay five.roman() // V five.morseCode() // ..... five.negative() // -5 five.loud() // FIVE five.loud('piglatin') // IVEFAY five.smooth() // S five.bucks() // $5.00
Cryptography
javascript
five.mdFive() // 30056e1cab7a61d256fc8edd970d14f5 five.golden() // 1.618033988749895
5 goes multilingual
javascript
five.arabic() // خمسة five.azerbaijani() // beş five.basque() // bost five.belarusian() // пяць five.bosnian() // pet five.bulgarian() // пет five.catalan() // cinc five.chinese() // 五 five.chinese('pinyin') // wǔ five.chinese('financial') // 伍 five.choctaw() // tahlapi five.croatian() // pet five.czech() // pět five.dothraki() // mek five.dovah() // hen five.dutch() // vijf five.elvish() // lempë five.elvish('quenya') // lempë five.elvish('sindarin') // leben five.english() // five five.esperanto() // kvin five.estonian() // viis five.finnish() // viisi five.french() // cinq five.german() // fünf five.greek() // πέντε five.hebrew() // חמש five.hindi() // पांच five.hungarian() // öt five.icelandic() // fimm five.indonesian() // lima five.irish() // cúig five.italian() // cinque five.japanese() // 五 five.kannada() // ಐದು five.klingon() // vagh five.korean() // 오 five.latin() // quinque five.latvian() // pieci five.lithuanian() // penki five.maltese() // ħamsa five.mongolian() // таван five.nepali() // पाँच five.norwegian() // fem five.persian() // پنج five.piglatin() // ivefay five.polish() // pięć five.portuguese() // cinco five.punjabi() // ਪੰਜ five.romanian() // cinci five.russian() // пять five.serbian() // pet five.sinhala() // පහ five.slovakian() // päť five.slovenian() // pet five.spanish() // cinco five.swedish() // fem five.tamil() // ஐந்து five.telugu() // ఐదు five.thai() // ห้า five.turkish() // beş five.ukrainian() // п’ять five.welsh() // pump
Different radices
javascript
five.binary(); // 101 five.octal(); // 5 five.hex(); // 5 five.base(4); // 11 five.base(3); // 12
Assertion
javascript
five.isFive(10); // false
Filter, Map and Reduce
javascript
five.filter([5, true, 5]); // [5, 5] five.map([1, 2, 3]); // [5, 5, 5] five.reduce([1, 2, 3]); // 5
Novelty
javascript
five.fab(); // ['Juwan Howard','Ray Jackson','Jimmy King','Jalen Rose','Chris Webber'] five.jackson(); // ['Jackie','Tito','Jermaine','Marlon','Michael'] five.furious(); // ['Tigress','Viper','Crane','Monkey','Mantis'] five.luniz(); // ‘I Got 5 on It’ five.r(); // '£5' five.funk(); // '5 bad boys with the power to rock you' five.high(); // 'o/' five.members(); //['Sean Conlon', 'Ritchie Neville', 'Scott Robinson', 'Jason \'J\' Brown', 'Abz Love'] five.discography(); //['5ive', 'Invincible', 'Kingsize'] five.singles(); //['Slam Dunk (Da Funk)', 'When the Lights Go Out', 'Got the Feelin\'', 'Everybody Get Up', 'It\'s the Things You Do', 'Until the Time Is Through', 'If Ya Gettin\' Down', 'Keep On Movin\'', 'Don\'t Wanna Let You Go', 'We Will Rock You', 'Let\'s Dance', 'Closer to Me', 'Rock the Party', 'I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday'] five.famous(); // ['Julian', 'Dick', 'George', 'Anne', 'Timmy'] five.fiveFiveFive(); // 'Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem'
Rotation
javascript
five.rot("five.js"); //"knaj.ox"
Asynchronous Usage
javascript
five.async(function(err, five) { // five === 5 });
Unicode
javascript
five.oclock(); // '🕔' five.oclockSomewhere(); // '🍺' five.guys(); // '🍔'
Money
javascript
five.euro(); // '5€' five.dollar(); // '$5'

Development

The code

All of the logic & heavy lifting is achieved in one self-contained file:

./five.js
Tests
npm test

License

MIT

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