a thread full of useless facts

[Mendoza]

Rectangular or square ones?

SQUARE of the 75mm x 75mm variety

which is 13 quadrillion post it notes

 

[The Large One]

I've been told to keep nonsense to myself.

 

[Mendoza]

I was kissed on the LIPs by a MALE NSCer on Friday

 

[pasty]

This thread will now to turn into a "Who kissed Mendoza" witch hunt

 

[SeagullRic]

If you could fold a standard piece of A4 paper 50 times, it would be as long as from the earth to the sun.

 

[strings]

If you could fold a standard piece of A4 paper 50 times, it would be as long as from the earth to the sun.

How does that work - I may just be really thick, but if you fold it, surely it will get smaller?

Or are you talking about the 'thickness' of the paper, having been folded fifity times.

 

[Easy 10]

A piece of paper (whatever the size) cannot be folded over on itself any more than 7 times.

FACT.

 

[Lankyseagull]

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

 

[barney]

men

 

[TSB]

No word in the English dictionary rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.

WRONG! Silver-Chilver
Purple......well, there is one.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

In York on a sunday it is legal to shot a Scottish Man, aslong as you do it with a bow and arrow.

 

[TSB]

What goes up must come down
What goes down doesn't always come back up (Leeds)

Dogs have been used to blow-up tanks
Chickens are used (without their permission) to test aircraft engines

Santa is an Albion fan

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Withdean Wanderer is a cock... Oh, wait... that's a useful fact.

it is a useful fact, also that he is useless.

 

[John Bumlick]

It will take 13,000,000,000,000,000 post it notes to cover planet earth

will or would? i wasn't aware anyone was trying...

 

[John Bumlick]

If you could fold a standard piece of A4 paper 50 times, it would be as long as from the earth to the sun.

what the f***ing HELL are you talking about?

 

[sten_super]

what the f***ing HELL are you talking about?

Every time you fold a piece of paper, you double it's thickness. So fold a piece of paper once, it is 2 sheets thick. Fold the paper again, it is 4 sheets thick. And again, 9 sheets. etc etc

The formula for calculating the thickness of a piece of paper (initial thickness i) folded n times is

i* 2^n.

If a piece of paper is 1mm thick (it is less than that, but I want to simplify the maths!), and folded 50 times, the thickness is

1*2^50 = 1*1125899906842627

which is 112589990684262.7 cm, or 1125899906842.627 m, or 1125899906.842627km.

The average distance from the earth to the sun is 149597890km. So according to that maths, unless I've missed out a factor of 10 somewhere, it will get you to the sun approximately 7 and a half times.

edit: of course, the error in my calculation is my assertion for the thickness of a piece of paper. Assume it to be 1/10th of a millimetre (which is probably an underestimate), and it gets you 3/4s of the way to the sun.

 

[John Bumlick]

Every time you fold a piece of paper, you double it's thickness. So fold a piece of paper once, it is 2 sheets thick. Fold the paper again, it is 4 sheets thick. And again, 9 sheets. etc etc

The formula for calculating the thickness of a piece of paper (initial thickness i) folded n times is

i* 2^n.

If a piece of paper is 1mm thick (it is less than that, but I want to simplify the maths!), and folded 50 times, the thickness is

1*2^50 = 1*1125899906842627

which is 112589990684262.7 cm, or 1125899906842.627 m, or 1125899906.842627km.

The average distance from the earth to the sun is 149597890km. So according to that maths, unless I've missed out a factor of 10 somewhere, it will get you to the sun approximately 7 and a half times.

edit: of course, the error in my calculation is my assertion for the thickness of a piece of paper. Assume it to be 1/10th of a millimetre (which is probably an underestimate), and it gets you 3/4s of the way to the sun.

fair enough then.

 

[SeagullRic]

Every time you fold a piece of paper, you double it's thickness. So fold a piece of paper once, it is 2 sheets thick. Fold the paper again, it is 4 sheets thick. And again, 9 sheets. etc etc

The formula for calculating the thickness of a piece of paper (initial thickness i) folded n times is

i* 2^n.

If a piece of paper is 1mm thick (it is less than that, but I want to simplify the maths!), and folded 50 times, the thickness is

1*2^50 = 1*1125899906842627

which is 112589990684262.7 cm, or 1125899906842.627 m, or 1125899906.842627km.

The average distance from the earth to the sun is 149597890km. So according to that maths, unless I've missed out a factor of 10 somewhere, it will get you to the sun approximately 7 and a half times.

edit: of course, the error in my calculation is my assertion for the thickness of a piece of paper. Assume it to be 1/10th of a millimetre (which is probably an underestimate), and it gets you 3/4s of the way to the sun.

Perfectly explained.