A fantastic animation from the team at TED-Ed, revealing how folding a piece of paper just 45 times can get you to the moon!
As TED themselves put, the unbelievable potential of exponential growth is indeed a lesson worth sharing.
Via the ever curious exp.lore.
But you can only fold a piece of paper in half 6 times.
indeed the number of times you can fold a piece of paper is limited, but I think typically 7 times is the limit.
The animation here is oriented towards the second idea mentioned in the video of “if you could fold a piece of paper as many times as you wish” to help explain exponential growth.