How many times can an A4 size piece of paper be folded in half?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

Any paper can be folded in half for 6 times.