a thread full of useless facts

[Mendoza]

This is post number 61 on this thread - FACT

 

[ali jenkins]

Brett's surname is MENDOZA




FACT

 

[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.

Perfectly explained.

perfectly?

 

[cannedheat]

Your chances of winning the National Lottery are 14,000,000 - 1 your chances of being murdered in the UK is 6,000,000 - 1

 

[bn3gunner]

all the gold that has been mined in the world would fill up three olympic size swimming pools , all the platinum mined would scacely fill one up to your ankles

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My hovercraft IS full of eels. Fact.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And lozenge rhymes with orange

It no more rhymes with orange than it does with banana.

 

[sams dad]

Lawrence Dallaglio was one of the backing singers on Tina Turner's hit " We don't need another hero (Thunderdome)"

 

[defrocked priest]

White wine will take out a red wine spill on a carpet.

 

[NMH]

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

Nothing rhymes with month
since they added the orpe to Scunth

 

[Seagullible]

According to the laws of physic, it is impossible for a bumble bee to fly

 

[Seagullible]

some Brighton fans are never satisfied

 

[We're the Stripes]

In the mother tongue of the common or garden hedgehog, there is no word for 'waterbed'.












Actually, I made that up.

But I'm pretty darn sure it's true.

 

[NMH]

In the mother tongue of the common or garden hedgehog, there is no word for 'waterbed'.


Actually, I made that up.

But I'm pretty darn sure it's true.

I checked, and it is true - but they got around it by calling them an "aqueous hibernation dirigible". A bit longwinded I know, but hedgehog language is interesting like that.