I was thinking about random topics, as I often do, and I started to wonder about the notion that a piece of paper can't be folded in half more than 8 times. It's something I learned at some point in my life and have never been able to disprove. Right now I tried it on a Post-It Note and could only get to six folds. Hence it must be impossible, right? Wrong!
A quick web search revealed that in 2001 a Pomona Valley high school junior, Britney, derived the formula for the maximum number of times paper could be folded and then proceed to fold a piece of paper in half 12 times. Way to go, small town math whiz Britney! She later used this mathematical talent to become a champion figure skater!
Seriously though: Go Britney! Way to put the long-established "paper can't be folded more than eight times" facists to shame.
