If a paper is folded 50times how small or how big is its size going too be???

Answer 1

folded 1 time is 1/2 the size
folded 2 times is 1/4 the size or 1/(2*2) or 1/(2 squared)
folded 3 times is 1/8 the size or 1/(2*2*2) or 1/(2 cubed)
etc.
notice how the denominator is always a power of two.

so folded 50 times is 1/(2 to the power of...)

You should be able to figure that out now.


In reality it is only an approximation.
It is a myth that you can't fold paper more than a set number of times. As the folds get thicker it isn't very clean, and it takes much more effort. You do need a pretty big and thin piece of paper to fold it more than a few times. It is also much much easier if all the folds go in the same direction (if it starts 1000 inches long, the first fold would make it 500, the second 250, the third 125, and so forth)

Interestingly, folded 50 times, the paper would be over 2 million Km thick after all that folding. It would be over 1 quadrillion times as big when unfolded. You get the idea.

Answer 2

it depends on the type of the paper,its thickness etc also a portion of surface area is lost through folds so i think your question needs alot of assumptions, but if you assume no surface area is lost through folds the area will be 1/2^50 of the original size. Hope u have a new idea now

Answer 3

Actually, it depends on the initial size of the paper, but it really is exponential decay, in which it decays at a constant rate; 1/2 after every fold every time

Answer 4

It isn't possible to fold a paper that many times no matter how big the original piece of paper is.

Answer 5

I thought a paper could only be folded seven or eight times no matter its size or the strength of the person (or object) folding it?

Answer 6

Non-existant. Mainly because it's impossible to fold a piece of paper more than seven times.

Answer 7

Its volume never changes is the only correct answer. You never said folded in half, or indeed how it was folded, (you cant fold paper in half so many times anyway) so we cant know how any linear dimesion or two-dimensional area changes. Some origami shapes have been folded dozens of times.

Answer 8

Actually, it is quite hard to fold a piece of paper more than seven times (I believe I read can't fold eight times...go ahead and give it a try.)

Answer 9

Impossible to do, so truly you will never know. Paper cannot be folded in half more than 7 times I believe it is. Try it, knock yourself out.

Answer 10

It would be 1/2^50 of the orginal size or 1/1125899906842624 of the original size.