Bed Sheet Problems Not Involving Urine or Blood for $200

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Bed Sheet Problems Not Involving Urine or Blood for $200

Post by Royal » Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:51 am

Who determined equations that characterize the limit on the number of times we can fold a sheet of paper of a given size in a single direction?
Who is Brittany Gallivan

You have insomnia one night and decide to remove your bed sheet, which is only about 0.4 millimeter thick. You fold it up once, and it becomes .8mm thick. How many times do you fold it if you want to make the bed sheet thickness equal to the distance between Earth and the moon?

40 Times

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