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Homework Statement This was the procedure for the lab: Find the mass of the Styrofoam cup. Half fill it with warm water at a temperature of about 50 degrees C. Determine the mass of the water and the cup. Dry off some small pieces of ice with the paper towel. Record the temperature of...

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I tried doing 2^23 because 23 folds is the answer but instead I ended up getting 8308608 which doesn't add up...do you have another way of solving it?

Would b^x be equivalent to 2^n? Because when 2 is folded once the thickness is 2^1=2 But when you fold it twice its 2^2 = 4

I assume that 'x' must be the number of paper folds but I'm not really sure what 'b' means.

Homework Statement The paper folding problem was a well-known challenge to fold paper in half more than seven or eight times, using paper of any size or shape. The task was commonly known to be impossible until April 2005, when Britney Gallivan solved it. A sheet of letter paper is about...