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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.
The loss function for folding paper in half in a single direction was given to be L = Ï t 6 ( 2 n + 4 ) ( 2 n â 1 ) {\displaystyle L={\tfrac {\pi t}{6}}(2^{n}+4)(2^{n}-1)} , where L is the minimum length of the paper (or other material), t is the material's thickness, and n is the number of folds possible.