Can you fold A4 paper 7 times?

Can you fold A4 paper 7 times?

The Verdict Technically, the seven fold limit has been busted by different groups using different materials, so it really is just a myth. But for the average person, the myth is very real. Try it yourself – how many times can you fold a single sheet of paper?

Can you fold a paper more than 9 times?

Forget your origami skills, folding an A4 piece of paper more than seven times is theoretically impossible. Challenge accepted! Trying to fold an ordinary sheet of A4 paper suggests that even eight times is impossible: the number of layers doubles each time, and the paper rapidly gets too thick and too small to fold.

What happens when you fold paper more than 7 times?

The commonly accepted wisdom is that you can’t fold a single sheet of paper in half more than seven times. The problem with folding paper in half multiple times is that the paper’s surface area decreases by half with each fold.

Why can’t we fold paper 7 times?

2 to the power of 7 is 128. Standard A4 80 g copy paper is 297 mm long and 0.1 mm thick. So after 7 folds, you would have less than 2.5 mm length and 12.8 mm thickness. Actually, you can’t fold it more than 6 times this way because the thickness going round in each fold would consume too much.

How many times can you fold a paper Mythbusters?

There’s an old myth that you can’t fold a single sheet of paper in half more than seven times. Thanks to Mythbusters and Britney Gallivan we know that with very specialized (large and thin) sheets of paper, you can fold paper 11 or 12 times respectively.

Why can’ta fold 7 times?

Is it possible to fold paper 10 times?

But thanks to an American high school student, Britney Gallivan, we now know that paper can be folded more than seven times, but not much more – Gallivan currently holds the world record for paper-folding at 12 folds in a single sheet of (toilet) paper.

What if we fold a paper 42 times?

42 folds will get you to the Moon. 81 folds and your paper will be 127,786 light-years, almost as thick as the Andromeda Galaxy. At 103 folds, you will get outside of the observable Universe, which is estimated at 93 billion light-years in diameter.