Monday, June 01, 2009
A dime has 118 ridges on its edge.
I just counted. Some dolt told me 117. I showed them. 117. What a joke.
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which reminds me of a weird fact. did you kknow it is impossible to fold a web page in half more than 7 times?
i love the cold. i still dont buy into taht reaching the moon thing. i may have to research this a bit.
if you were to believe wikipeadia
One of the reasons why high-fold-count paper folding is so difficult is that the height, and thus width of the paper required and height of the successive folds, grow exponentially. Folding a piece of paper in half 100 times, if it were possible, would produce a stack of paper approximately 8×1022 miles in height
One of the reasons why high-fold-count paper folding is so difficult is that the height, and thus width of the paper required and height of the successive folds, grow exponentially. Folding a piece of paper in half 100 times, if it were possible, would produce a stack of paper approximately 8×1022 miles in height
I'm still not sure I'm a believer.
I think that maths is all smoke and mirrors anyway.
I mean, come on, they just confuse people with a bunch of equal signs and greek letters and make some outlandish claim??
I think that maths is all smoke and mirrors anyway.
I mean, come on, they just confuse people with a bunch of equal signs and greek letters and make some outlandish claim??
Suppose you start with a paper which is 0.004 inches thick. The resulting
thickness after 100 folds would then be
(0:004)2100 = (0:004)(1:26765 £ 1030) = 5:07060 £ 1027
inches thick; i.e., it is about 8:00284£1022 miles. To give you an idea of how
thick that is, the distance to the sun in about 9:3£107 miles. This means that
this thickness is more than 860 trillion times the distance from the earth to
the sun! This example illustrates how quickly an exponential functions grows.
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thickness after 100 folds would then be
(0:004)2100 = (0:004)(1:26765 £ 1030) = 5:07060 £ 1027
inches thick; i.e., it is about 8:00284£1022 miles. To give you an idea of how
thick that is, the distance to the sun in about 9:3£107 miles. This means that
this thickness is more than 860 trillion times the distance from the earth to
the sun! This example illustrates how quickly an exponential functions grows.
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