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Puzzle ZOPB 


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Take a normal piece of paper, exactly 0.1 mm thick.

Fold it in half, and then in half again, and again, and again.

Do this a total of 50 times.

How thick would the final paper be (if this could be done)?

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Hint
We'll assume that we can actually fold it this many times.

 

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