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Originally posted by Munku
Yes it's impossible, I read the mathmatical reasoning behind it, something about x^ something power folds or something. Whatever too much for me.
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yes... and here it is in an easier explanation:
imagine you're not folding but cutting, that is, on the first fold/cut you would have 2 pieces of paper, second fold would have four, etc...
first fold = 2 pieces of paper (2 = 2^1)
second fold = 4 pieces of paper (4 = 2^2)
third fold = 8 pieces of paper (8 = 2^3)
fourth fold = 16 pieces of paper (16 = 2^4)
fifth fold = 32 pieces of paper (32 =2^5)
xth fold = 2^x
so you can see the exponential growth of the numbers of pieces of paper you'd have by the 7th fold (2^7 = 128).
It's a known fact that no matter how large the piece of paper is, by the 5th fold, it starts to get a little difficult, and on the 6th fold, it's near impossible. After that, the folding ends.