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In theory, that peice of paper would be thick enough to accomplish the distance from earth to the moon.

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as i said...in theory. but hypothetically

it would just be a normal piece of paper that is 0.02cm thick.

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The paper would still be the same thickness as it was before you folded it.

But you're probably asking for the thickness of the big folded wad. Naturally,

that depends on how thick the paper is before you start folding it.

You haven't mentioned what kind of paper you'd like to use, so I can't actually

calculate a thickness. All I can tell you is that whatever the thickness of the

paper is, the final folded form will be 250 = 1,125,899,907,000,000 times as thick

(rounded to the nearest million times).

20-lb bond, widely used for home printers, varies from about 0.0038 to 0.0045 inch thick. If I use 0.004 inch for convenience, and multiply it by the rounded number above, I get

(0.004 in) x 250 = 4.5 x 1012 in = 3.8 x 1011 ft = 71 million miles, rounded,

or just under 298 times the distance to the moon.

(That's if you're careful to squeeze out all the air between the layers after you fold it.)

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