what?

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:46, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It's an example of exponential growth.
Lets say a piece of paper is 1mm thick fold it (double it) 10 times, it's 51cm thick, 20 times it's over a km thick by 50 it's 562949953421 km's thick.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:50, Reply)

but you can't fold a piece of paper 50 times, that would be silly.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:51, Reply)

Only 7 times

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:52, Reply)

That would be 6ish cm, i think I've massively overestimated the thickness of a piece of paper.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)

Thank you for breaking it down for me.

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:55, Reply)

I don't know if that's sarcastic
I wasn't trying to patronise you.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:56, Reply)

No, no, I genuinely mean thank you.
I really didn't understand it until you explained it.
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 7 Jul 2011, 13:59, Reply)