Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: How thick is paper?

Helgard opened this issue on Jul 31, 2006 ยท 18 posts


diolma posted Tue, 01 August 2006 at 4:42 PM

(stopped shutting up, for something totally OT that may or not amuse you....)

The following is impossible to do, but...

Suppose you had some paper that was 1/1,000 inches thick (that's one thousandth of an inch).
The paper is enormously large in its other dimensions (width and breadth).

Now you fold that paper in half and squeeze out all the air (that's fold 1) The thckness of the paper is now 2/1,000 inches.
With your new doubled sheet, you do the same: fold it in half and squeeze out all the air (that's fold 2) The thickness (ie height) of the folded paper is now 4/1,00 inches.

Repeat the operation for a total of 32 times (including folds 1 & 2, so that you end up with "that's fold 32").

Question: How high would the resulting stack of paper be?

Just a little something for the mathematically-inclined among you to ponder...

(Shutting up re-started...)

Cheers,
Diolma