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takingchances42 said:


Sure you can. You are working with a simple example of exponential mathematics. Seven folds, given that number of pieces of paper being folded doubles each time, is equal to folding 2 raised to the 6th power number of sheets, or folding 64 pages in half one time. A bit of a sloppy fold, but easily doable.

The problem is the length of the paper. The previous folds grow closer together to what you are folding, until you can't make a new primary fold anymore. Simply take an ordinary sheet of typing paper that happens to be... oh... say 150-200 feet long... and it can easily be folded in half seven times.

Try it. I double dog dare you.

Hello. *smile* I'm Ruby.

Talk like that gets my panties wet.
 
But Ruby.. that's the wrong answer. You can't fold it more than 7 times. Seriously, try it.
 
Ruby, get yourself over into the busty avatar competition, we'll get to the higher math later.
 
Never said:
But Ruby.. that's the wrong answer. You can't fold it more than 7 times. Seriously, try it.

Oh sure, burst my bubble. ;)

Did somebody say busty avatar thread?
 
Rubyfruit said:


Hello. *smile* I'm Ruby.

Talk like that gets my panties wet.

Wow, I could make you gush then...hehe. Women claim that all too often...but Math-talk all too often doesn't really pan out.

BTW, I agree you can't...the bigger the paper has nothing to do with it. It's the compounding layers of paper that two folds generate.

Define..."sloppy fold" hehe. Even with a 'sloppy fold' eight is right out. So the principle holds true.
 
I always heard it was 11 times, anyway.

Rubyfruit, you want me to send you a paper I wrote in college calculus about pi? Hell, maybe I should read it to you. ;)

TB4p
 
dreamer0919 said:

BTW, I agree you can't...the bigger the paper has nothing to do with it. It's the compounding layers of paper that two folds generate.

Yeah, but it was still a good reply to my post. I vote him in. He can have Frimost's locker.
 
Rubyfruit said:
That's impossible, but you can try.

Um, once I'm out of it that is.
If someone wants to fold your bra seven times after you're out of it, they really need to get out of the mathematics lab more often.

TB4p
 
teddybear4play said:
I always heard it was 11 times, anyway.

Rubyfruit, you want me to send you a paper I wrote in college calculus about pi? Hell, maybe I should read it to you. ;)

TB4p

Pi is overrated. e is, as the rappers call it, the shiznit.
 
E is only an undefined quantity of energy. Pi is a definite twenty two sevenths. Pi is totally the shiznit.

Whose locker do I get?
 
Wow I remember having this conversation about fold9ng paper back in the 5th grade.

Oh the memories :)
 
Pyper said:
E is only an undefined quantity of energy. Pi is a definite twenty two sevenths. Pi is totally the shiznit.

Whose locker do I get?

Feh. pi is at least a number.

i is imaginary - it shouldn't really exist. It defies logic.

i is the shiznit.
 
I'd like to go beyond the tease with you, in person, Ms. Fruit.
 
and I never wished for the freedom to travel more than I do right now. I'd have to kidnap you and take you on a tour of all the girls. Now THAT would be kickass.
 
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