10 hands (aka Useless fact #436)


I’ve just been told that, if you use binary, you can count up to 31 using the fingers of one hand.

And if you use both hands (side by side), that number increases to 1023 - no, really!

Here’s the proof:

10 hands

Betcha don’t learn *that* at McDonalds

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