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The last fold will be ineffective in making squares. If you fold a square in half it becomes two rectangles - one on top of the other. This "square" (pardon me, but the site doesn't do accurate 'drawing') shows the folding process. |--------------------------------|

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when folded back, becomes |----------------|

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|----------------| and when that is folded upwards, it becomes four squares |----------------|

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|----------------| The third fold makes eight rectangles.... |--------|

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|--------| And the fourth fold makes sixteen squares... |--------|

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|--------| Another fold - a fifth - would bring us back to rectangles again. There would be 32 of them. |----|

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