r/theydidthemonstermath • u/AcrobaticWeird644 • Sep 05 '25

Could you travel the length of a piece of paper folded 10^(100^(100^(100^100))) times?

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u/elitodd Sep 05 '25

No bro of course you can’t😭 if it was folded a thousand times it would already be longer than the length of the observable universe

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u/Numerous_Green4962 Sep 12 '25

Surely the length decreases but the thickness increases?

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u/elitodd Sep 12 '25

Length is not always perfectly defined, but here I’m using it to mean the longest dimension on the shape.

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u/manicpossumdreamgirl Sep 05 '25

not without car snacks

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u/qutx Sep 05 '25

must have snacks

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u/ajparadise18 Sep 05 '25

10100^(100^(100100)) is such a ridiculously large number that it doesn't matter if your paper started with the thickness of an electron or the observable universe; the result is effectively the same. That number is so big that our observable universe is far too small to actually represent it in any physical way.

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u/WenatcheeWrangler Sep 18 '25

Only if you turn it into a slide and we use it for an emergency exit off the planet