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| 03 Feb 2016 03:26 PM |
I wrote this simple code, and apparently folding a paper on 0.01cm thickness 42 times, will reach the moon. Too bad you won't be able to fold it more than 8 times :|
local MoonDist = 384400 -- Distance between earth and moon local PaperThickness = 1.0000000e-7 -- Regular paper size (In kilometers) local Curr = PaperThickness local Counter = 0
while wait() do Curr = Curr * 2 Counter = Counter + 1 print(Curr) if Curr >= MoonDist then break end end
print("Paper folds to reach moon: " .. Counter) |
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:27 PM |
I like code like this. It makes me smile.
~IanSplodge, Walrus God of the Forums. |
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Notwal
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:42 PM |
| Time to get to Jupiter: 53 folds :) -ish |
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:44 PM |
| Im on my phone right now. How many folds to Andromeda? |
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:44 PM |
don't worry I can fold atoms
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Notwal
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:46 PM |
| Center of the Galaxy: 81-ish folds 0_0 |
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:48 PM |
| Its cool how 42 folds goes to the moon, and 43 brings you back.. |
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:49 PM |
| Powers of 2 my dear friend. It's what makes binary and hex so capable with insane numbers. |
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Notwal
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:50 PM |
| BTW, we are 88 folds away from the andromeda galaxy :) now we need to start folding space..... |
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:51 PM |
| I know how time works, we could fold that! |
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fixylol
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| 03 Feb 2016 03:56 PM |
how much folds to the approximate end of the observable universe?
Number of times opinion has changed: A lot. |
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BanTech
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| 03 Feb 2016 04:02 PM |
| Shame that most paper is 0.05mm thick though :/ with a 0.05mm thick paper, about 103 folds is the depth of the universe. With the paper you are on about, 102 folds :) |
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Notwal
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| 03 Feb 2016 04:22 PM |
| @fixylol, the Universe is expanding faster than the speed of light, meaning we can't calculate how far away it is. We also can't calculate Earth's overall position in the Universe, or what all speed is relative to. |
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| 03 Feb 2016 04:28 PM |
Seeing as nothing can go faster than the speed of light, your statement is incorrect. In-fact, the universe is slowing down as we speak. Once the universe has expanded as far as possibly could, it will retract into itself again.
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| 03 Feb 2016 05:38 PM |
That is actually incorrect. The Universe is appearing to be accelerating its expansion, not decelerating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_expansion_of_the_universe
The real question to ask is why this happens. It's theorized dark energy is responsible for this - Energy that doesn't interact with light at all. |
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| 03 Feb 2016 06:12 PM |
I thought dark energy was simply a negative version of gravity (opposite)? If that were the case, there are a lot of theories for that as well. By theory, I mean a hypothesis.
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| 03 Feb 2016 11:56 PM |
| @Notwal He ment the part of the universe that is visible to us. We can't see the whole universe, only part of it. |
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