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Has anyone folded paper more than 7 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.
Who folded a paper the most times?
Britney Gallivan
Such ‘geometric growth’ effects are dramatic: in theory, 26 folds would make the paper thicker than the height of Mount Everest. The current world paper-folding record belongs to California high school student Britney Gallivan, who in 2002 managed to fold a 1.2km-long piece of tissue paper 12 times.
How many times is the most folded paper?
On 27 January 2002, high school student, Britney Gallivan, of Pomona, California, USA, folded a single piece of paper in half 12 times and was the first person to fold a single piece paper in half 9, 10, 11, and 12 times. The tissue paper used was 4,000 ft (1,219 m; 0.75 miles) long.
Is it possible to fold a paper 9 times?
Because paper doesn’t stretch. 1 doubled 9 times equals 512. So, once folded 9 times (if you can manage it), the piece of paper becomes 512 sheets thick, and the size of each ‘page’ in that stack is reduced to one 512th of the size of the sheet you started with.
How would a piece of paper folded 42 times reach the moon?
And incredibly, it only takes 42 foldings of a paper to get from the Earth to the Moon, and only about 94 foldings of a paper to make something the size of the entire visible Universe. And now you know how many times you’d have to fold a piece of paper to reach the Moon!
What happens if you fold paper 103 times?
It’s just a matter of math, really. Fold an A4 once and it will be twice as thick, fold it again and it will be four times as thick as it initially was. Turns out, according to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, if you do this 103 times the sheet’s thickness will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion light-years.
How would a piece of paper folded 42 times reach the Moon?
What happens if you fold a paper 103 times?
Turns out, according to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, if you do this 103 times the sheet’s thickness will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion light-years. To do this, however, involves an exponential increase of the necessary energy to fold the paper, which wasn’t computed.
How many times can you fold a piece of paper?
After completing an especially difficult origami model, you may find yourself wondering how many times you can fold a piece of paper. The commonly accepted wisdom is that you can’t fold a single sheet of paper in half more than seven times.
How many times did Britney Gallivan fold the paper?
On 27 January 2002, high school student, Britney Gallivan, of Pomona, California, USA, folded a single piece of paper in half 12 times and was the first person to fold a single piece paper in half 9, 10, 11, and 12 times. The tissue paper used was 4,000 ft (1,219 m; 0.75 miles) long.
How much tissue paper would it take to fold the universe?
Consider, to fold tissue paper 0.0033 inches thick 12 times, it would take 2417 feet of tissue paper. Likewise, folding an average size sheet of paper about 50 times gets you to the sun and a little over 100 times gets you folded paper with a thickness the size of known universe (exact mathematics depend on the exact thickness of the paper).
What happens if you fold a sheet of paper in half?
The problem with folding paper in half multiple times is that the paper’s surface area decreases by half with each fold. A single sheet of paper may be easy to cut, rip, or tear, but a paper that has been folded in half multiple times becomes very strong because of the increase in density.