Wednesday, November 13, 2002  6:50:30 AM

Tuesday, November 12, 2002, 6:24:07 AM, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

MRJ> 380,000km = 3.8E11 millimeters

MRJ> 3.8E11 / 0.1E-3 = 3.8E15 thicknesses of paper.

MRJ> Log2(3.8E15) = 51.75, so 52 times.

MRJ> Unfortunately it's pretty much impossible to fold a piece of paper more than
MRJ> about 7-8 times, no matter how big it is!


Perfect!

I have a serious unit conversion problem!!!

Anyway, thanks for the jokes about my answer of n=41.78.
I know it is practically impossible to fold the paper .78!!!

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