Eli5: Why can you only fold a paper in half seven times, no matter the size ?
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I think the important thing to point out here is that it’s not like 7 is some universal constant of paper folding. The idea behind this thought experiment is that folding paper becomes really really hard after a relatively short amount of fold, 7 is just a nice number that is probably already hard to reach with any normal piece of paper. How many times you can fold a piece of paper depend on its size, on the type of paper, and the tools at your disposal.
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