Somewhere in the vicinity of 10 or 11, depending on how large and (more importantly) how thin the paper is. A lot of people claim seven. The TV show Mythbusters took a very large sheet of paper and folded it ten times to prove that was not correct. Note that the tenth fold is essentially trying to fold a ream... those thick packages you buy copier paper in at the office supply store.
Average distance to the Moon: 384,403 km = 384 x 106 meters.
Thickness of a typical paper: According to Wikipedia, "Paper may be between 0.07 millimetres (0.0028 in) and 0.18 millimetres (0.0071 in) thick.". I'll use a value of 0.1 mm., equal to 10-4 meters.
Distance of Moon divided by paper thickness, in this case, is 384 x 1010.
Now, each time you fold a paper, its thickness will double. Therefore, you have to solve 2x = 384 x 1010. This can be solved by logarithms; specifically, you calculate log(384 x 1010) / log(2), which is 41.8. So, folding this particular paper 42 times in half, you will get a little past the Moon.
Note: It will have to be a huge sheet of paper, that will allow you to fold that many times.
Average distance to the Moon: 384,403 km = 384 x 106 meters.
Thickness of a typical paper: According to Wikipedia, "Paper may be between 0.07 millimetres (0.0028 in) and 0.18 millimetres (0.0071 in) thick.". I'll use a value of 0.1 mm., equal to 10-4 meters.
Distance of Moon divided by paper thickness, in this case, is 384 x 1010.
Now, each time you fold a paper, its thickness will double. Therefore, you have to solve 2x = 384 x 1010. This can be solved by logarithms; specifically, you calculate log(384 x 1010) / log(2), which is 41.8. So, folding this particular paper 42 times in half, you will get a little past the Moon.
Note: It will have to be a huge sheet of paper, that will allow you to fold that many times.
Average distance to the Moon: 384,403 km = 384 x 106 meters.
Thickness of a typical paper: According to Wikipedia, "Paper may be between 0.07 millimetres (0.0028 in) and 0.18 millimetres (0.0071 in) thick.". I'll use a value of 0.1 mm., equal to 10-4 meters.
Distance of Moon divided by paper thickness, in this case, is 384 x 1010.
Now, each time you fold a paper, its thickness will double. Therefore, you have to solve 2x = 384 x 1010. This can be solved by logarithms; specifically, you calculate log(384 x 1010) / log(2), which is 41.8. So, folding this particular paper 42 times in half, you will get a little past the Moon.
Note: It will have to be a huge sheet of paper, that will allow you to fold that many times.
Average distance to the Moon: 384,403 km = 384 x 106 meters.
Thickness of a typical paper: According to Wikipedia, "Paper may be between 0.07 millimetres (0.0028 in) and 0.18 millimetres (0.0071 in) thick.". I'll use a value of 0.1 mm., equal to 10-4 meters.
Distance of Moon divided by paper thickness, in this case, is 384 x 1010.
Now, each time you fold a paper, its thickness will double. Therefore, you have to solve 2x = 384 x 1010. This can be solved by logarithms; specifically, you calculate log(384 x 1010) / log(2), which is 41.8. So, folding this particular paper 42 times in half, you will get a little past the Moon.
Note: It will have to be a huge sheet of paper, that will allow you to fold that many times.
it depends on how you fold it.
if you fold it like in a boat or hot dog way 10 times,
it will be hard.
but if there is no pattern to it, yes you can
Actually, if you fold in halves, it is impossible to fold it more than 8 times. If you have a large piece of paper, and you don't fold it in halves, yes, you can fold it more than 10 times.
Average distance to the Moon: 384,403 km = 384 x 106 meters.
Thickness of a typical paper: According to Wikipedia, "Paper may be between 0.07 millimetres (0.0028 in) and 0.18 millimetres (0.0071 in) thick.". I'll use a value of 0.1 mm., equal to 10-4 meters.
Distance of Moon divided by paper thickness, in this case, is 384 x 1010.
Now, each time you fold a paper, its thickness will double. Therefore, you have to solve 2x = 384 x 1010. This can be solved by logarithms; specifically, you calculate log(384 x 1010) / log(2), which is 41.8. So, folding this particular paper 42 times in half, you will get a little past the Moon.
Note: It will have to be a huge sheet of paper, that will allow you to fold that many times.
Any paper can be folded in half for 6 times.
A standard piece of paper cannot be folded 7 times, but the Mythbusters folded a hangar sized piece of paper 11 times.
It is hard to explain, but it basically amounts to the size to fold ratio. A large enough, thin enough, sheet of paper can be folded more than eight times, but it has to be the size of a football field in order to do it. 128 layers of paper is a lot to fold in half to get to 256!
you can fold a 4 piece in half 5 times
It will still be one square unless you cut the paper.
a) It depends on paper size, and the quality of the paper.b) A piece of paper may be folded in half approximately 6-7 times consecutively, without unfolding, since the seventh fold and beyond would require bending hundreds (2^n) of layers .MythBusters managed to fold a football field sized piece of paper 11 times.
Any paper can be folded in half for 6 times.
A standard piece of paper cannot be folded 7 times, but the Mythbusters folded a hangar sized piece of paper 11 times.
Any size sheet of paper can only be folded in half 7 times.
The height of a piece of paper folded in half once is half of its original height.
Folding the piece of paper does not change the thickness of the piece of paper. However, the thickness of the folded paper would be twice that of the original sheet of paper.
If by sides you refer to the number of paper slices you can hold then the formula is this: assuming that when the paper has not been folded, the number of times folded is equal zero then the equation is: 2x, where x is the number of times folded. for example if the paper has been folded four times the number of sides is: 24 = 16
There is no fixed sequence.
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Fold it into half, then another half again.
Britney Gallivan broke the record by folding gold foil in half 12 times.http://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm
It is hard to explain, but it basically amounts to the size to fold ratio. A large enough, thin enough, sheet of paper can be folded more than eight times, but it has to be the size of a football field in order to do it. 128 layers of paper is a lot to fold in half to get to 256!
you can fold a 4 piece in half 5 times