A Piece Of Paper Folded 42 Times
However this of course does not apply in reality.
A piece of paper folded 42 times. So i was at a friend s house sunday night playing a game when this odd fact came up in conversation. It is pretty much impossible to fold a single sheet of paper more than about 8 times though myth busters once folded a giant sheet the size of a football field 10 times. So indeed a paper folded 42 times would have 2 42 times its original height making it reach the moon and far beyond the moon. Several of those around the table scoffed at this exclaiming that a single sheet of paper was simply too thin to have its thickness reach any substantial amount after only a few dozen folds.
I know it sounds fake but i. If you fold a piece of paper in half it doubles in thickness. And if you fold it in half again it doubles in thickness again. With that type of exponential growth it would take just 23 folds for a 0 1 millimetre piece of paper to be one kilometre thick and 30 folds for it to be thick enough to reach outer space 100 000 kilometres.