 | | From: | Googler | | Subject: | Re: Paper Folding | | Date: | 21 Jan 2005 23:33:58 -0800 |
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 | A Britney Gallivan solved the folding paper in half problem. It is at
the URL www.osb.net/pomona/12times.htm
Finely it has proved with math there is not a limit to the number of
times paper can be folded.
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| | From: | Prai Jei | | Subject: | Re: Paper Folding | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 14:21:27 +0000 |
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| Googler (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
<1106379238.656080.51210@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>:
> A Britney Gallivan solved the folding paper in half problem. It is at
> the URL www.osb.net/pomona/12times.htm
> Finely it has proved with math there is not a limit to the number of
> times paper can be folded.
I have managed to fold a piece of thin (copy) paper, A4 size (that's just a
tad bigger than "Letter"), eight times. Nominally that makes A12 size
(about the size of a postage stamp) but since it made a wad about half an
inch thick the actual size was rather ill-defined.
But I did it, so **** whoever said seven is the maximum.
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Paul Townsend
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| | From: | Phil Carmody | | Subject: | Re: Paper Folding | | Date: | 22 Jan 2005 14:17:56 +0200 |
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| "Googler" writes:
> A Britney Gallivan solved the folding paper in half problem. It is at
> the URL www.osb.net/pomona/12times.htm
> Finely it has proved with math there is not a limit to the number of
> times paper can be folded.
*cough*bullshit*cough*
Phil
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Excerpt from Geoff Bulter's Proscriptive Dictionary:
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| | From: | Jim Ward | | Subject: | Re: Paper Folding | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:43:43 -0500 |
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| On 22 Jan 2005 14:17:56 +0200, Phil Carmody
wrote:
>*cough*bullshit*cough*
I'd like to repeat her experiment. Please send me some gold foil. Or
bricks, I like a challenge.
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| | From: | Michael Mendelsohn | | Subject: | Re: Paper Folding | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:46:58 +0100 |
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| Jim Ward schrieb:
> On 22 Jan 2005 14:17:56 +0200, Phil Carmody
> wrote:
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> >*cough*bullshit*cough*
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> I'd like to repeat her experiment. Please send me some gold foil. Or
> bricks, I like a challenge.
I lent my gold foil to someone who wanted to repeat Rutherford's
experiment, but you can easily buy some yourself:
http://www.surepure.com/products.php?ID=2&subCat=1
Cheers
Michael
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Still an attentive ear he lent Her speech hath caused this pain
But could not fathom what she meant Easier I count it to explain
She was not deep, nor eloquent. The jargon of the howling main
-- from Lewis Carroll: The Three Usenet Trolls
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| | From: | Jim Ward | | Subject: | Re: Paper Folding | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 10:03:19 -0500 |
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| On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:46:58 +0100, Michael Mendelsohn
wrote:
>I lent my gold foil to someone who wanted to repeat Rutherford's
>experiment, but you can easily buy some yourself:
>http://www.surepure.com/products.php?ID=2&subCat=1
Recently, I was presented with some chocolates with gold leaf on
the top. The metal gave them a tinny taste.
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| | From: | Prai Jei | | Subject: | Re: Paper Folding | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:40:33 +0000 |
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| Jim Ward (or somebody else of the same name) wrote thusly in message
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> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 19:46:58 +0100, Michael Mendelsohn
> wrote:
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>>I lent my gold foil to someone who wanted to repeat Rutherford's
>>experiment, but you can easily buy some yourself:
>>http://www.surepure.com/products.php?ID=2&subCat=1
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> Recently, I was presented with some chocolates with gold leaf on
> the top. The metal gave them a tinny taste.
So it wasn't really gold then? I'd complain about that.
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Paul Townsend
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