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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.
Ahh you say, but it is impossible to fold a piece of paper more than eight times. Turns out, like so many unreferenced claims, that isn't true. The record is in fact 12. Still that twelve-fold piece of paper isn't even table height â it's hard to imagine getting from there to the Moon in 30 folds. That's because our brains are inclined to think linearly, not exponentially. Find out more here: H/t Gizmod o. View the discussion thread.