Help me please I’m confused

Question

The exponential explosion in origami. Zhang San has a very large piece of paper with a thickness of about 0.08mm. In theory, how many times can it be folded in half to reach the height of Mount Everest (8848.13 meters)

Answer 1

Brian , Theodora Lu

brian you are right - in practice it is not possible folding paper in the way the task is set up, but in theory we can calculate it.

> we start with *1* layer of paper: that has a thickness of 0.08 mm

1. fold has *2* layers => 2 * 0.08 => 0.16 mm
2. fold has *4* layers => 4 * 0.08 => 0.32 mm
3. fold has *8* layers => 8 * 0.08 => 0.64 mm
4. fold has *16* layers => 16 * 0.08 => 1.28 mm
...
10.fold has *1024* layers => 1024 * 0.08 => 81.92 mm
...

the coding can be done in a loop.

Answer 2

In theory and practice it is impossible. A piece of paper cannot be folded in half more than six times without cutting/tearing it. After six times of folding it in half the outer edge gets too thick to bend around the folds.

Answer 3

Why didn't try while loop