49+ How Many Times Fold A Piece Of Paper? Gif

49+ How Many Times Fold A Piece Of Paper?
Gif. Why is folding a paper many times so difficult? The guys over at mythbusters thought they how much time are we willing to spend?

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This lesson will leave you wanting to grab a piece of paper to see how many times you can fold it! After completing an especially difficult origami model, you may find yourself wondering how many times you can fold a piece of paper. It would seem quite plain at a glance, but if you take a piece of paper that is only 0.1 mm thick and fold it in half, the new thickness is 0.2 mm.

It is widely accepted that you can't fold it more than 7 times.

True for a standard piece of paper of a4 dimensions, but according to us teenage (at the time) mathematician britney gallivan the maximum number of folds is in fact dependent on the initial size of the sheet. The average distance to the moon from earth's center is 384,403 km, and the average thickness of a sheet of paper is about.1 mm or.0000001 km. This is a popular myth that gets repeated on a regular basis when people talk about folding paper. Once you hit 8 folds the strength required to fold it is more than humans can cre.