Topic “a4 sheet”
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2008-08-25
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Folding paper...
[…] I told him that it couldn't be done, even if he used paper the size of a football field. But I now know that I was wrong. Suppose that you start with an standard A4 sheet of paper - about 300 mm long, and about 0.05 mm thick. The first time you fold it in half, it becomes 150 mm long and 0.1 mm thick. The second fold takes it to 75 mm long and 0.2 mm thick. By the 8th fold (if you can get there), you have a blob of paper 1.25 mm long, but 12.8 mm thick. It's now thicker than it is long, […] read