Used Rarely. merc is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
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.
About Folding. For most people's purposes, a fold is made when a piece of paper is creased and bent over on itself. You can fold the paper again in a different location, but this does not technically count as an additional fold. For paper folding experiments, the paper must be folded in half each time. The problem is that paper folding is exponential. Each time a piece of paper is folded, the layers double.