Moon Steps

[Oldboy913]

Here is a maths question for you, if you had a piece of paper just a Thousandth of an inch thick if you could fold this paper over in half to make a stack (You can cut it if you like) how many times would have to fold or cut it before the stack was able to reach the moon which is about 250,000 miles away? Have a guess before you work it out.

[wildwood]

7920000million???

[Teddio]

No doubt you know the answer! i calculate about 43 times.

[wizard69]

seven (apparently)

[mibn2cweus]

Stacking the paper after each cut, you would need to cut a total of 44 times for the resulting stack to reach the Moon.

Incidently, to end up with one inch squares you would need to start with a sheet of paper measuring 66 plus miles to a side to get the resulting 17,592,186,044,416 squares which when stacked one on the other would reach 277,654 plus miles high.