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If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times how thick would it be?
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∙ 10y ago
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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Answer #2:
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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∙ 10y ago
If you could fold a piece of paper in half 50 times, it would become incredibly thick, estimated to reach a thickness of about 112 million kilometers. This would be equivalent to the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
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∙ 12y agothe most folds recorded is 12
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