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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.
And, actually, you always lose more than half the length of the paper on each fold, since, as the thickness increases, the fold itself takes up more paper. Using the equation: L = pi t/6 (2^n+4)(2^n-1) you get the minimum length of paper (L) needed to fold a paper of a given thickness(t) certain number of times (n).