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Fold paper 42 times and it reaches the Moon Test
- Angle
- Folding paper 42 times would reach past the Moon: doubling beats intuition
- Format
- one number grows, scale zooms out
- Duration
- 29.96s · voice: mock (silent placeholder)
- YouTube description
- A sheet of paper is about 0.1 mm thick. Each fold doubles it, so 42 folds is 0.1 mm × 2^42 ≈ 439,805 km, past the Moon (384,400 km on average). Doubling feels slow until suddenly it isn’t.
Sources: NASA Moon fact sheet (mean Earth–Moon distance 384,400 km).
- Instagram / TikTok caption
- 42 folds of paper would reach past the Moon. Doubling is sneaky. #math #space #exponential
