If only then maybe?? Of course. That's the answer Just think, humanity - at least in Douglas Adams' world would have saved several 10's of thousands of years if we had your calculation, Brad. With a slight variation, this could be tested practically. Instead of folding the paper, cut the paper and stack the cut pieces in layers. You probably want to do that inside of a very narrow tube. This is an exercise that only makes sense in a situation where the paper remains paper no matter how many times it is cut or folded.
In other words, fantasy land. Categories ActionScript AIR 4. Ajax 4. Android 1. AS 2. CacheBox 3. Caching 3. Centuar 3. Objective 4. CFClient 7. CFML 5. CFObjective 2. CFSummit 1. ColdBox ColdBox Developer Week 2. ColdFusion ColdFusion Builder 8. CommandBox ContentBox 2. D2WC 1. Objective 0. Flash Flex Flex Charting 2. ForgeBox 0. The second solution was for folding the paper in a single direction. This is the case when you try to fold a long narrow sheet of paper.
She derived another formula relating the number of folds possible in one direction n to the minimum possible length of material l and the material's thickness t :. When she looked closely, she found that if you are trying to fold the sheet as many times as possible, there are advantages in using a long narrow sheet of paper. Her formula told her that to successfully fold paper 12 times, she would need about 1. In January , she went to the local shopping mall in Pomona. With her parents, she rolled out the jumbo toilet paper, marked the halfway point, and folded it the first time.
It took a while, because it was a long way to the end of the paper. Then she folded the paper the second time, and then again and again. After seven hours, she folded her paper for the 11th time into a skinny slab, about 80 cm wide and 40 cm high, and posed for photos. She then folded it another time to get that 12th fold essential for her extra maths credit , and wrote up her achievement for the Historical Society of Pomona in her 40 page pamphlet, " How to Fold Paper in Half Twelve Times: An "Impossible Challenge" Solved and Explained ".
She wrote in her pamphlet, " The world was a great place when I made the twelfth fold. Britney Gallivan succeeded because she was as contrary and determined as Juan Ramon Jiminez, the Spanish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He wrote, in a metaphor for the questioning and resilient human spirit, " If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Tags: pseudoscience , weird-and-wonderful. Email ABC Science. By clicking 'Send to a friend' you agree ABC Online is not responsible for the content contained in your email message. It's about , kilometres away, and counting. How thick is a sheet of paper? That all depends on the quality of paper and the manufacturer.
As it makes sense to have everything in the same units, 0. Answering the question, part 1: How thick is a piece of paper folded 50 times? I've seen this question tackled before, and the biggest mistake is to rush straight in and say "if we fold the paper 50 times, the paper will be 50 times thicker". Think about it like this feel free to grab a sheet of paper and try it : Fold a piece of paper in half once.
It's twice as thick as it was, right? Fold it in half again. It's now twice as thick as it was last time- if you've got the paper in front of you, you can count the layers: it's four times as thick as the original piece of paper. By now, it's fairly easy to see what's happening: each time you fold, you're doubling the thickness of your lump of paper.
That means it's fairly easy to see the long, slow way of calculating the thickness of the paper after 50 folds:.
Start off with the thickness of one sheet, and then double it. Double it again. Double once more. Double again. And again. Keep going until you've done it 50 times. Because the original number 0. So if we fold a piece of paper 50 times, it would end up being ,, kilometres thick! Answering the question, part 2: Would this reach the Moon?
Distance to Moon: , km Height of paper folded 50 times: ,, km The second number is bigger and, importantly, given in the same units , so we have our answer: yes, it would! That means that our folded paper would reach nearly times further than the Moon! So what's that far out? Travelling inwards from Earth to the Sun, we'd cross the orbit of Venus just after climbing a bit more than a third of our stack of paper.
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