What is the word for base-64? [closed]

The base-2 numbering system is called binary.

The base-8 numbering system is called octal.

The base-10 numbering system is called decimal.

The base-16 numbering system is called hexadecimal.

How should the base-64 numbering system be called?

(A word of Latin origin like the above would be nice.)


It should be "Tetrasexagesimal". Here is a great number of the bases named: Wikipedia.

"Tetra" stands for the final "4" according to this system; "sexagesimal" stands for "60".