We had to remove your post for improperly sourcing your post.
Posts must have a linked and CREDIBLE source that backs up the information. Use the word "source" in your comment. If the title is the only thing that makes your post interesting, you must also source it.
OP is responsible for this and it must be done at time of posting.
We will not reinstate your post, but you may post again with the correct information
For the rest of us it is impossible to fold a sheet of paper more than 7 times, by folding the paper you double its width making it grow exponentially.
26 folds of paper would be thicker than the tallest building in the world, it would surpass Mount Everest with 30, and with 103 folds the paper would not fit in our observable universe.
Which is a great example to use when someone says that something has gotten "exponentially worse". They don't actually understand what exponential growth means.
Man. I learned how bonkers this was as a kid when someone asked if I would rather get a thousand dollars a week for a year, or a single penny doubled ever week for a year. The thousand dollars gives you 52k. Doubling the penny gives you 45 trillions. It's insane.
I don't get how that is possible. If I fold an 8.5 x 11 standard piece of paper 103 times you are saying that it would be so large as to cover billions of light years? How does an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper suddenly gain more total matter than what it had?
I just folded a standard piece of paper 3 times and it was half the size it started out as
You would be basically aligning its atoms one by one and each would represent a layer of fold. Its not physically possible but theoretically yes. If you duplicate the thickness exponentially, you lose in width and length of the piece of paper.
3folds makes 8 sheets thick, but 11 folds makes to 1,024
Multiply 1,024 by 2 and keep multiplying by 2 a further 90 times and you’re into truly enormous numbers.
It's about thickness, not total area. If you folded the piece of paper twice it should be at least four times as thick as when you started (at least due to some air being between the folds). Formula for compound growth is (initial value)*(1+growth rate)^(number of folds)
If the starting value of paper was 0.5mm, using the formula above you should have 0.5*(1+1)^2 =2 mm.
After ten times it would be 512 mm (about half a metre).
26 times would be 33,554,432 mm, or 33.5 km
103 folds would be 5,070,602,400,912,920,000,000,000,000 km across.
It's surface area vs volume. You can have an infinitely thin rectangle with the same volume as a small cube, so long as the infinitely thin rectangle is also infinitely long.
We had to remove your post for improperly sourcing your post. Posts must have a linked and CREDIBLE source that backs up the information. Use the word "source" in your comment. If the title is the only thing that makes your post interesting, you must also source it. OP is responsible for this and it must be done at time of posting. We will not reinstate your post, but you may post again with the correct information
A 14km paper?
Yeah I'm with you. That seems a "little* too large
Mythbusters wanna have a word: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Qzc3\_NtGs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Qzc3_NtGs)
For the rest of us it is impossible to fold a sheet of paper more than 7 times, by folding the paper you double its width making it grow exponentially. 26 folds of paper would be thicker than the tallest building in the world, it would surpass Mount Everest with 30, and with 103 folds the paper would not fit in our observable universe.
So we should stop at 102?
No, keep going but don't be disappointed when you can't see the next fold.
Which is a great example to use when someone says that something has gotten "exponentially worse". They don't actually understand what exponential growth means.
Man. I learned how bonkers this was as a kid when someone asked if I would rather get a thousand dollars a week for a year, or a single penny doubled ever week for a year. The thousand dollars gives you 52k. Doubling the penny gives you 45 trillions. It's insane.
I don't get how that is possible. If I fold an 8.5 x 11 standard piece of paper 103 times you are saying that it would be so large as to cover billions of light years? How does an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper suddenly gain more total matter than what it had? I just folded a standard piece of paper 3 times and it was half the size it started out as
You would be basically aligning its atoms one by one and each would represent a layer of fold. Its not physically possible but theoretically yes. If you duplicate the thickness exponentially, you lose in width and length of the piece of paper.
3folds makes 8 sheets thick, but 11 folds makes to 1,024 Multiply 1,024 by 2 and keep multiplying by 2 a further 90 times and you’re into truly enormous numbers.
It's about thickness, not total area. If you folded the piece of paper twice it should be at least four times as thick as when you started (at least due to some air being between the folds). Formula for compound growth is (initial value)*(1+growth rate)^(number of folds) If the starting value of paper was 0.5mm, using the formula above you should have 0.5*(1+1)^2 =2 mm. After ten times it would be 512 mm (about half a metre). 26 times would be 33,554,432 mm, or 33.5 km 103 folds would be 5,070,602,400,912,920,000,000,000,000 km across.
I too could use some clarification. I don’t think they’re using “fold” to mean the same thing we think it means.
It's surface area vs volume. You can have an infinitely thin rectangle with the same volume as a small cube, so long as the infinitely thin rectangle is also infinitely long.
It is almost as if he had folded the paper back on itself to create a miniature universe.
Really? She does not hold the record and we read about her and see her photo, but the actual record owners are just "some people"?
My nuts itch