rossedwards.net » counting http://www.rossedwards.net providing useless information since 1999 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:31:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 10 hands (aka Useless fact #436) http://www.rossedwards.net/2008/02/67/ http://www.rossedwards.net/2008/02/67/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:13:07 +0000 Ross http://www.rossedwards.net/2008/02/67/ 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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