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Take a sheet of paper of the ordinary variety – letter size for the Americans, A4 for the rest of the world – and fold it into half. Fold it a second time, and a third time. It’s about as thick as your finger nail. Continue folding if you can. At 7 folds it is as thick as a notebook. If you would have been able to fold it 10 times, it would be as thick as the width of your hand. Unfortunately, it isn’t possible to do so more than about 7 times. Try it for yourself. At seventeen folds it would be taller than your average house.

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