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Â· just now. Report Abuse. you can fold a piece of regular paper in half 12 times. You can fold paper for ever if you start in the corner and dog ear it that's 4 right there turn it over and there is 8 more dog ears there now fold it in half that's 9 so 8 is straight out. snizzleborfin Â· 9 years ago.
The myth: You can't fold a paper in half more than eight times.* The reality: Given a paper large enoughâand enough energyâyou can fold it as many times as you want. The problem: If you fold it 103 times, the thickness of your paper will be larger than the observable Universe: 93 billion light-years.Seriously.obody should care that you can't ever have a piece of paper large enough to fold 103 times. No being in existence could fold it that many time anyway. What's far more interesting to note is the math. Paper folding yields a 2^n result, not a 2*n one.