Time for MATH MINUTE! (provide your favorite theme music here).

Get out your paper & pencil because I have a new puzzle for you!!

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PUZZLE #21 Paper folding Mar. 5 – Mar. 9

This sounds easy.

Calculate how thick a folded piece of ordinary typing paper would be if you could fold it in half 50 times.

For starters try folding a large piece of paper as many times as you can.

If you have trouble getting to 50 folds, then estimate the answer

– you might be surprised!

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Send your comments, ideas and solutions before Monday to this email address, and be sure to put < MM > in the subject line parksjm@potsdam.edu

Visit us here online at      http://www2.potsdam.edu/parksjm/MM.htm

to see the results every Monday.

See you next time on MATH MINUTE!  (theme music fades out here).