| Everyone knows that it's impossible to fold a paper in half more than 8 times using any size paper. That is until Britney Gallivan proved them wrong. She folded it 12 times for extra credit in a junior high school math class, no less. Way to go, Britney! Link |
What Britney did was unique: she realized this is a problem of limits (the thickness of paper works against you) and worked out a mathematical formula that minimizes this effect.