Relevant: http://videosift.com/video/Mythbusters-Folding-a-Piece-of-Paper-7-Times

I love nerds.

FYI : the number of paper layers = 2^13 = 8 192

More bent than folded at the end there, though.

So when does a fold cease to be a fold and become an arc?

Well, that explains why I go through so much toilet paper.

I gotta say I'm actually with the mythbusters mindset on this.

it's much easier to just fold a really really long but not wide piece of paper multiple times, but the challenge comes from having one almost as wide as it is long.

This just seems like cheating.

this is the kind of thing that i would say is good for young kids bit lame for kids this age.

this is like 18yr old watching play school and taking notes , granted if they had fun grate but seems really tedouse for a very predictable and limted outcome , they allso seem to be taking it so seriously id onyl ever want to do something like this if it was realy casual and having a good laff.

this is not in spirit with the challenge. To me, this is bullshit.

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Really bad English accent.

Considering they needed to and were allowed to all lean on it to keep it from unfolding, couldnt you fold it more using mechanical means that could apply more strength?

Where does this maximum of 7 come from? Seems completely arbitrary. I figure you can fold it an infinite number of times provided you have infinite length paper.

>> ^SpaceDude:

Where does this maximum of 7 come from? Seems completely arbitrary. I figure you can fold it an infinite number of times provided you have infinite length paper.


Go find a piece of paper and fold it in half, length then width etc. and see if you can make it past 7, that's where the number comes from.

However, this really is cheating because they're only folding it one way, and they're holding it down so it doesn't flip again.

Give everyone a ribbon for participation.

Was there some kind of lesson here? I mean is this what college tuition pays for? And it looks to be more rolled up than folded at the end there...