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Â· just now. Report Abuse. you can fold a piece of regular paper in half 12 times. You can fold paper for ever if you start in the corner and dog ear it that's 4 right there turn it over and there is 8 more dog ears there now fold it in half that's 9 so 8 is straight out. snizzleborfin Â· 9 years ago.
But I now know that I was wrong. Suppose that you start with an standard A4 sheet of paper-about 300 mm long, and about 0.05 mm thick. The first time you fold it in half, it becomes 150 mm long and 0.1 mm thick. The second fold takes it to 75 mm long and 0.2 mm thick. By the 8th fold (if you can get there), you have a blob of paper 1.25 mm long, but 12.8 mm thick. It's now thicker than it is long, and, if you're trying to bend it, seems to have the structural integrity of steel.