Can folding a piece of paper 45 times get you to the moon? By seeing what happens when folding just one piece of paper, we see the unbelievable potential of exponential growth. This lesson...
========== How many times can you
fold a piece of paper?Assume that one had a piece
of paper that was very fine,like the kind they typically
use to print the Bible.In reality, it seems like a piece of silk.To qualify these ideas,let's say you have a paperthat's one-thousandth
of a centimeter in thickness.That is 10 to the power
of minus three centimeters,which equals .001 centimeters.Let's also assume that you have
a big piece of paper,like a page out of the newspaper.Now we begin to fold it in half.How many times do you think
it could be folded like that?And another question:If you could fold the paper over and over,
as many times as you wish,say 30 times,what would you imagine
the thickness of the paper would be then?Before you move on,I encourage you to a...
