From Doug Clow
Feedback mentions McDonald’s “40312 possible combinations” advertising
campaign, and notes that “reader Sally Baker points out that in fact there are
only 255 possible combinations of eight foods”
(9 February).
Baker is not quite right: there are actually 256 possible combinations of
eight foods. She left out the most important combination—not having any of
them at all. That’s certainly my favourite.
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
